android appBury St Edmunds Suffolk Hotel
listed building grade II
CAMRA West Suffolk & Borders branch.
last updated Aug 16th, 2021.
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Bury St Edmunds Suffolk Hotel
also traded as le Greyhounde
West, 52.245053,0.713323
Closed between 1970 and 2000
opened 16th century
35 to 38 Buttermarket
grid reference TL 853 642
It's shown (though not named) on this old OS map from about the end of the 19th century. interactive map
A former Commercial & Family Hotel and posting house, the current building dates from 1833, when it was rebuilt and changed its name from the Greyhound to the Suffolk Hotel. The original Greyhound building dated back to at least the 16th century.
It is sometimes claimed that the nearby abbey owned the house as early as 1295 and although the precise date may be open to dispute, there is no gainsaying the fact that it was owned by the monks, for at the Dissolution in 1539 they surrendered the property to the Crown…
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Nutshell 0.03 mile
Corn Exchange bar 0.05 mile
King's Arms 0.09 mile
Masons' Arms 0.11 mile
Karooze 0.14 mile
One Bull 0.14 mileHistorical interest
Originally called the Greyhound and an earlier building dated back to about 1539.
The Greyhound in the Buttermarket in Bury St Edmunds is now kept by Mr Thomas Reynolds who lately kept the Three Tuns in the Old Town
(31st July edition confirmed previous occupier of the Greyhound as Mr William Adams).Ipswich Journal, July 3rd 1742***
To be lett, the Greyhound Inn in Bury St Edmunds…
Landlords
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(1861 census information from Malcolm Fairley)
(** report reproduced with kind permission from Foxearth & District Local History Society)
(*** historic newspaper information from Bob Mitchell)
Old OS map reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.
