android appBildeston Crown
opening hours
- Mon-Sat: 1100-2300
- Sun: 1100-2230
food times
- Mon-Sat: 1200-1445, 1900-2145
- Sun: 1200-1445, 1900-2130
regular real ales
- Adnams Southwold Bitter [H]
- Greene King Abbot [H]
- Morland Old Speckled Hen [H]
guest beers
This pub serves 1 guest ale.
source: Local
listed building grade II*
Local licensing authority for Bildeston is Babergh
CAMRA West Suffolk & Borders branch.
last updated Oct 19th, 2021.
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Bildeston Crown
South West, 52.10722,0.90907
Real Ale is sold here.
104 High Street, IP7 7EB
grid reference TL 993 494
A wonderful, privately owned & historic country inn located in the centre of the village which has undergone a no expenses spared restoration in recent times. Well worth a visit for its architectural features alone including a fine heavily timbered restaurant (12-3 + 7-10pm) & separate bar area. Also offers luxury accommodation (12 rooms) & disabled access & toilet. The Crown was built in 1495 as a merchant's house & has been an inn since the mid 17th century Photographs of this Grade II* Listed pub and more historical information about it can be found at suffolk.camra.org.uk/pub/59
Facilities
Accessible to disabled customers
Accommodation available
Beer garden or other outside drinking area
Beer served through handpumps
Bus stop nearby (see transport links for details)
Dogs welcome
Evening meals
Family friendly
Function room available to hire
Lunchtime meals (not just snacks)
Parking
Quiet pub - no electronic games, piped music or jukebox
Real fire
Restaurant or separate dining area
Separate bar
Gallery
Nearest railway station
Needham Market: 8.6 miles (13.8km)Other nearby Suffolk pubs
Red Lion 0.11 mile
Peacock 1.10 miles
Wheelhouse 1.94 miles
Swan 2.0 miles
Lindsey Rose 2.4 milesHistorical interest
The pub can be seen on this old OS map from about 1902 (interactive map)
To be sold together or separate, a Copper that boils off two hogsheads and a Mash Tub that will Mash seven combs, and two Coolers, new last Summer, at the Crown Inn, Bildeston.Ipswich Journal, August 6th 1748***
Stowmarket Mercury coach – to London through Finborough, Bildeston, Hadleigh Stoke, Nayland, Kelvedon, Witham, Hatfield and Chelmsford. Sets out from White Hart Stowmarket every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday morning at 5 o clock to the Plough inn in Soho, London. Return every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 5 o clock. Inside 18s; outside 10s 6d. allowed 14lb luggage… parcels taken at White Hart, White Horse Finborough, Crown Bildeston, Kings Head Hadleigh, Angel Stoke, and the Vine Nayland…
Landlords
Footnote
The crown is a simple sign to show loyalty to the reigning monarch and apart from the commonwealth era (1648-60) has been a pub sign for over 600 years.
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(** historic newspaper information from Stuart Ansell)
(*** historic newspaper information from Bob Mitchell)
(**** Last Orders is a free local newsletter - published by Suffolk CAMRA members since 1978)
