android appKentford Kentford
opening hours
- Mon-Wed: closed
- Thu: 1800-2200
- Fri: 1200-1500, 1700-2200
- Sat: 1700-2200
- Sun: 1200-1600
food times
- Mon-Wed: closed
- Thu: 1800-2030
- Fri: 1200-1400, 1800-2030
- Sat: 1800-2030
- Sun: 1200-1400
regular real ales
- Greene King Abbot [H]
- Greene King IPA [H]
guest beers
This pub serves 2 guest ales.
listed building grade II
Local licensing authority for Kentford is West Suffolk
CAMRA West Suffolk & Borders branch.
last updated Nov 20th, 2023.
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Kentford Kentford
formerly Old Cock, Cock
North, 52.27246,0.50296
Real Ale is sold here.
Bury Road (B1506), CB8 7PR
grid reference TL 708 667
opened 1600
owner/operator: Intrepid Inns
Large Grade II Listed country pub with garden with play area helps to make this a popular venue for families. The main bar has a very high ceiling and open fire. Food available. Winter opening times Tuesday - Friday 11-3, 6-10.30; Saturday 12-11; Sunday 12-4
New for 2018: Meat-free Tuesdays with a plant-based menu available from 1800-2100.
Parts of the building date from about 1600, though it is recorded as early as 1563.
It was renamed the Kentford 2013/2014, though it retains a picture of a cock on the new sign.
Facilities
Beer garden or other outside drinking area
Beer served through handpumps
Bus stop nearby (see transport links for details)
Camping or caravan site nearby: (close to the pub)
Evening meals
Family friendly
Lunchtime meals (not just snacks)
Parking
Real fire
Restaurant or separate dining area
Separate bar
Traditional pub games available
Railway station about 0.8 miles away (see transport links for details)
Gallery
Nearest railway station
Kennett: 0.8 miles (1.3km)Other nearby Suffolk pubs
Packhorse Inn 1.57 miles
Chequers 1.81 miles
Red Lodge 2.2 miles
White Hart 3.5 milesHistorical interest
The pub is shown on this old OS map from about 1901 (interactive map)
A reference appears in the Ipswich Journal, August 4th 1744*** to the Cock Inn at Kentford.
Auction of the Household Furniture and Farming Stock belonging to Mrs. Meller (widow) at the Cock Inn, Kentford...including brewing utensils for 5 combs, hogsheads etc.Ipswich Journal, 20 Sep 1777***
The announcement of the marriage on Monday se'nnight (5th) of Mr Malden, of Soham, to Miss Fletcher, of the Cock Inn, Kentford, Suffolk.Ipswich Journal, March 1810**
William Collins paid his bill with a cheque, but it was returned to Howell the bank concerned having stopped payment 46 years previously.Ipswich Journal, March 22nd 1862** (when Samuel Howell was the landlord)
In 1871 Greene King bought the Cock for the princely sum of £370.…
Landlords
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(old PO directory information courtesy of londonpublichouse.com)
(** historic newspaper information from Stuart Ansell)
(*** historic newspaper information from Bob Mitchell)
