android appPolstead Bakers' Arms
listed building grade II
last updated May 11th, 2022.
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Polstead Bakers' Arms
also traded as Brewers' Arms?
South East, 52.01872,0.87688
Closed: after 1958
Spring Ln, Whitestreet Green
grid reference TL 974 394
The pub can be seen on this old OS map from about the end of the 19th century. interactive map
The building dates from the 17th or 18th century. It's shown as a beerhouse on OS maps at least as late as 1958, but subsequent sheets are insufficiently detailed to draw any conclusions as to its closure date.
The 1901 census lists only one pub, called the Brewer's Arms, in White Street Green, which has been assumed to be this pub. It may refer to the Brewers' Arms at nearby Bower House Tye, though the name in the entry doesn't tie in with that pub's historical records. Further information is required to clear this up.
Gallery
White Hart 0.98 mile
Fleece 1.00 mile
Brewers Arms 1.06 miles
Cock 1.35 miles
Fox & Hounds 1.62 miles
Hare & Hounds 1.82 milesHistorical interest
Sometimes listed at White Street green, Boxford.
To be sold by private contract, a beer house, containing a large kitchen and tap room, and general shop attached, sleeping rooms, back house, brew house, cellar, yards, stable, sheds, garden and orchard, all in about three quarters of an acre of ground, situated in the parish of Boxford, on White Street Green, Suffolk. These premises are well adapted for a dealer.Ipswich Journal, August 1865**
In 1937 the pub is listed in Kelly's Directory as one of 220 Suffolk pubs that were retailing beer that they were brewing.
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.
