android appGreat Blakenham Bell
listed building grade II
last updated Jul 15th, 2024.
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Great Blakenham Bell
East, 52.12192,1.08782
Closed: about 1997
255 Stowmarket Rd
grid reference TM 114 515
The pub can be seen here on an old OS map from about the end of the 19th century. interactive map
The building is mainly early 19th century, but with parts dating back to the late 16th or early 17th.
It's believed to have been called Bluebell Farm circa 1830 (it appears on the 1837 OS map as "Blue Bell")
Although listed in CAMRA's 1997 pub guide (albeit only selling keg), planning permission to convert this pub to residential use was granted in April of that year; it may have gone before that guide went to press.
Gallery
Sorrel Horse 0.66 mile
Greyhound 1.46 miles
Crown 1.51 miles
Lion 2.2 miles
Cross Keys 2.5 miles
Rampant Horse 2.5 milesHistorical interest
Owner/operator: Pubmaster
no real aleCAMRA's 1997 Suffolk Real Ale Guide
A reference appears in the Ipswich Journal*** on 3 Aug 1771 : to be sold, a Messuage and Publick-House, called the Bell at Great Blakenham
There will be a shew of Horses and colts at the sign of the Bell in Blakenham on Sat 14 inst… all gentlemen and dealers and others met with a hearty welcome from their humble servant Edmund Mills … Diner at 2 o clock. Ipswich Journal, 7 Sep 1782
Bell at Blakenham… humble servant Edm. Mills (shew of horses and colts) Dinner at 2 o clockIpswich Journal, 6 Sep 1783
A show of horses at Blakenham Bell on Mon 15 Sep…
Landlords
Footnote
NOTE: A messuage equates to a dwelling-house and may include outbuildings, orchard, curtilage or court-yard and garden - this may have been an earlier structure to the current property.
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(** historic newspaper information from Stuart Ansell)
(*** historic newspaper information from Bob Mitchell)
Old OS map reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.
