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Hulver Street Hulvergate Lodge
Hulver Street Hulvergate Lodge
also traded as Gate, Hulver Gate
South West, 52.42703,1.62672
Closed: some time between 1997 and 2007.
The St
grid reference TM 466 871
The pub can be seen (as the Gate) on this old OS map from about the end of the 19th century. interactive map. Oddly, it was still shown as a pub on OS online maps even as late as 2017.
Now renovated and residential, after many years of semi-dereliction.
It was formerly an open plan free house set in 2 acres of grounds.
The date of its closure is unknown, but must have been between 1997 (when it was listed as open in a Suffolk Camra guide) and 2007 (when it was found semi derelict). Several unsuccessful applications to convert it to residential use between March 2005 and January 2007 were refused, before a successful one was lodged in February 2009. So it could have closed as early as 2004/2005.
Owner/operator: free
Pleasant open plan freehouse set in two acres of grounds. Good food served in the non-smoking dining room. Outdoor Children's play area and indoor play room. Caravan site in the pub grounds.
Beers: Adnams Bitter; Draught Bass; Bass M&B Mild; guest beer (Bass list).CAMRA's 1997 Suffolk Real Ale Guide
Gallery
Historical interest
The Beccles Brewery was sold with a house, gardens, building plots, a hotel [Kings Head] and 32 public houses previously owned by Frederick William Farr, at the Kings Head in Beccles on 28 Apr 1852. See Suffolk Archives Ref: 559/1 - This sale included the Gate, Hulver Street, Henstead cum Hulver.
Landlords
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(some old PO directory information courtesy of londonpublichouse.com)
Old OS map reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.