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Bentley Case is Altered
Bentley Case is Altered
South West, 51.99113,1.06963
Cask Ale is sold here.
Capel Rd, IP9 2DW
grid reference TM 108 369
bar / diner, opened 1777
owner/operator: Bentley Community Pub Limited / local community
Owned and run by the local community, this pub has a single bar serving two drinking areas, one with a wood burning stove, and a pretty beer garden with plenty of seating, some under cover. Various music evenings, including a monthly Open Mic Night are hosted along with a quiz night which is held on the last Saturday of the month. Traditional pub games are played including darts, cards and dominoes. Local artists' work is on display.
Nearby (on some of the pub land) a new build local community shop is being run as a separate entity to provide basic groceries for the village.
The pub holds the Cask Marque Award for serving great quality real ale and has a toilet accessible to disabled customers.
AS THIS IS COMMUNITY RUN PUB AND DEPENDS UPON VOLUNTEERS IT MAY BE AN IDEA TO PHONE AND CHECK OPENING TIMES FIRST.
In the days when the pub was just called "the Case", it was run by a woman who let her customers pay when they wanted to, or even not at all. But when she married, the house policy was tightened up, so it was said that, "The Case is altered".Local legend purporting to explain the unusual name
Facilities
- Accessible to disabled customers
- Beer festivals: May
- Beer garden or other outside drinking area
- Dogs welcome
- Family friendly
- Live music
- Parking
- Pub sells beer from local brewers
- Smoking area
- Special events: Quiz nights every month (last Saturday)
- Traditional pub games available
- Village shop or similar facility on-site
- WiFi available: free.
Railway station about 3.6 miles away (see transport links for details)
Gallery
Nearest railway station
Historical interest
The pub can be seen on this old OS map from about 1902 interactive map)
Owner/operator: Pubmaster
Attractive two bar pub, with all food cooked to order.
Beer: Ind Coope Benskins BB; Friary Meux BB, Burton Ale; Tolly Mild; Whitbread Flowers IPA.CAMRA's 1997 Suffolk Real Ale Guide
A report in the Ipswich Journal** on May 9th in 1857 states the "Auction of the Case is Altered, Bentley, occupied by Mr Wm. WARD."
In January 2014 the Bentley Community Pub Ltd was delighted to announce that they have agreed to purchase the freehold of the Case is Altered from Punch Taverns, subject to contract and subject to approval from the Punch board. In a recent statement they said:…
Landlords
Footnote
The phrase "Case is Altered" was first used by an Elizabethan lawyer, Edmund Plowden and referred to new evidence in a legal case. Later Ben Johnson - an Elizabethan playright - also used it as a name for a comedy (written before 1599).
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(** historic newspaper information from Bob Mitchell)