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Ipswich Porters Lodge
Ipswich Porters Lodge
52.05469,1.15301
Closed: before 1840
opened about 1815
St Nicholas rd
grid reference TM 162 442 (approximate location)
To be sold by auction, Lot 3, The newly erected brick built freehold messuage and public house, called the, Porter's Lodge, situated in the parish of St. Nicholas, together with stable, yard and large garden adjoining; also an exceedingly convenient, new erected and well suitable coal warehouse, next to the public road, with the said garden at the back thereof, communicating with the River Gipping, capable of containing 3 or 400 cauldrons of coals. Land tax redeemed.Ipswich Journal, July 1815**
Public House to be let, free of Brewer, and entered upon at Michaelmas next…
Landlords
1823: George Spinks
1829: Samuel Oldham (deceased)
1830: Louisa Manning
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)