android appIpswich Shipwrights Arms
listed building grade II
Local licensing authority for Ipswich is Ipswich Borough Council
CAMRA Ipswich & East Suffolk branch.
last updated Feb 24th, 2024.
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Ipswich Shipwrights Arms
West, 52.04752,1.15578
Hotel 
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55-61 Wherstead Rd, IP2 8JJ
grid reference TM 164 434
Hotel
Now a hotel with a public bar; it seemed to operate as a members' club for some time (from about 1998). The bar is now only open to hotel guests and Travellers' Choice Club members.
The hotel is made up of a number of old buildings, some of which are listed and date from the 16th or 17th century.
Facilities
Railway station about 0.7 miles away (see transport links for details)
Gallery
Nearest railway station
Ipswich: 0.7 miles (1.1km)Other nearby Suffolk pubs
Steamboat Tavern 0.18 mile
Silver Star 0.20 mile
Isaacs 0.42 mile
Briarbank 0.45 mile
Lord Nelson 0.47 mile
Bin 93 0.47 mileHistorical interest
The pub can be seen on this OS town plan from about 1880 (larger map).
Owner/operator: Pubmaster
Under-rated pub with a genuinely friendly welcome from the jazz loving landlord.
Beers: Ind Coope Benskin's BB, Tolly Bitter.CAMRA's 1997 Suffolk Real Ale Guide
An inquest was held at Shipwrights Arms in Ipswich before Simon Jackaman, gent & coroner, on the body of William Davis, who the previous eve was riding a mare from parish of St Mary Stoke towards Wherstead when he came into contact with a donkey-cart and was thrown from his seat and received a mortal wound on the head. He was taken up in an insensible state and died the following morning. At the time of the accident he was riding very fast on the wrong side of the road. The shock was so violent that the mare as well as the rider fell…
Landlords
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(census information from Dudley Diaper)
(** information from Stuart Ansell)
(*** historic newspaper information from Bob Mitchell)
