Ipswich Cricketers
opening hours
- Mon-Thu: 0800-2400
- Fri-Sat: 0800-2430
- Sun: 0800-2400
food times
- Mon-Sun: 0800-2300
regular cask ales
- Adnams Ghost Ship [H]
- Greene King Abbot [H]
- Ruddles Best Bitter [H]
- Sharp's Doom Bar [H]
guest beers
This pub serves 6 guest ales.
Local licensing authority for Ipswich is Ipswich Borough Council
CAMRA Ipswich & East Suffolk branch.
last updated Oct 6th, 2025.
Something we've got wrong about this establishment? Something more you think we should know about it? Please email us
Ipswich Cricketers
formerly Town House, Millars
South, 52.05961,1.15465
Cask Ale is sold here.
51 Crown St, IP1 3JA
grid reference TM 163 448
bar / diner, opened 1930s
owner/operator: Wetherspoon / Wetherspoon
The Cricketers is large town centre "Tolly Folly" pub opposite the Tower Ramparts bus station, operated by JD Wetherspoon. It is poplular with cask ale drinkers.
It has various seating areas around a central bar and kitchen and is popular at most times of the day. Externally there are patio areas to the side and rear. There are regular Wetherspoons beer festivals.
The pub has an accessible toilet .
The pub accepts the usual 50p per pint discount for CAMRA members with production of a voucher.
Facilities
Accepts CAMRA discount vouchers
Accessible to disabled customers: There is ramp access at the side of building and a ground floor accessible toilet near the bar
Beer festivals: several a year
Beer garden or other outside drinking area
Beer served through handpumps
Bus stop nearby (see transport links for details)
Evening meals
Family friendly
Lunchtime meals (not just snacks)
Parking: there is a public pay and display car park at rear of pub.
Pub sells beer from local brewers
Smoking area
Traditional pub games available
WiFi available: There is free WiFi.
Railway station about 0.8 miles away (see transport links for details)
Gallery
Nearest railway station
Ipswich: 0.8 miles (1.3km)
Halberd 0.08 mile
Three Wise Monkeys 0.09 mile
Hatton Court 0.12 mile
Crafty Fox 0.15 mile
Manning's 0.16 mile
Cock & Pye 0.18 mileHistorical interest
Owner/operator: Pubmaster
Huge town centre "Tolly Folly" which has been revamped and reverted to its original name. At present it is believed Pubmaster has sold to a large pub chain.
Beers: Tetley Bitter; Whitbread Boddington's Bitter; Whitbread Flowers Original.CAMRA's 1997 Suffolk Real Ale Guide
May also be listed at 93-95 Crown St.
An earlier building, also called the Cricketers Inn was located to the rear of the site on a road junction that has now disappeared.
In the June/July 1981 edition of Last Orders*** it was reported that the Town House then had Tolly beers on handpump (marking a return to selling real ale).
Landlords
Footnote
Once known as a "Tolly Folly". In the 1930s the Tollemache brewery underwent a large expansion, first taking over the Cambridge Star Brewery and then building a number of vast mock-baronial estate pubs, mostly in Ipswich. The ornate style, and the scale of the expansion, led to these new buildings being known as the Tolly Follies. They were losely based on the design of the Tollemache stately home, Helmingham Hall.
Helmingham Hall is a moated manor house in Helmingham. It was begun by John Tollemache in 1480 and has been owned by the Tollemache family ever since. The house is built around a courtyard in typical late medieval/Tudor style. It is not open to the public.
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(*** Last Orders is a free local newsletter - published by Suffolk CAMRA memers since 1978)
