All we know about this pub is a reference in the Ipswich Journal in 1782. If you know more please let us know.

There will be a quantity of horses and colts …to be sold at William Grooms’s at Hintlesham Lion on Fri 9th Aug where all gentlemen and dealers may be supplied and met with a hearty welcome from their humble servant, William Groom… a good ordinary at 1 o clock…Ipswich Journal, 3 Aug 1782