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Debenham Red Lion
listed building grade II
CAMRA Mid-Anglia branch.
last updated May 27th, 2020.
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Debenham Red Lion
also traded as Lion
Due to the latest government regulations, pubs currently have to close by 10pm. Opening hours displayed on this page may not take account of this change.
closed 1999
opened 16th century
8 High St, IP14 6QT
grid reference TM 173 633
One-time brewhouse; as far as we can tell, it's now being used as a guest house / restaurant.
Some of the building dates from the 15th century, with much alteration and re-building since.
It's shown (though unnamed) on this old OS map from about 1902 (interactive map)
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Other nearby Suffolk pubs
Woolpack 0.13 mile
Rose 3.1 miles
Victoria 3.5 miles
Crown 3.6 miles
Magpie 3.8 miles
Bell 3.9 milesHistorical interest
To be sold… also one Moiety of Half part of the freehold messuage called the Lion in Debenham with an orchard now adjoining, now in occupation of Henry Kent.Ipswich Journal, 9 Aug 1783
Historical commercial hotel & posting house.
Reported in The Street in 1881.
Died on the 17th Miss E Jessop, aged 59, landlady of the Red Lion Inn.Ipswich Journal, May 1880
Landlords
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(** historic newspaper information from Stuart Ansell)
Old OS map reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.
