Knodishall Butcher's Arms
food times
- Mon-Tue: closed
- Wed-Fri: 1200-1430, 1800-2000
- Sat: closed
- Sun: 1200-1500
regular cask ales
- Adnams Southwold Bitter [H]
guest beers
This pub serves 2 guest ales.
Local licensing authority for Knodishall is East Suffolk
CAMRA Ipswich & East Suffolk branch.
last updated Feb 28th, 2023.
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Knodishall Butcher's Arms
formerly Frog 'n' Toad
South East, 52.19296,1.5608
Cask Ale is sold here.
Leiston Rd (B1069), IP17 1UQ
grid reference TM 434 609
opened pre-1874
A brick-built two bar free house on the main road close to Leiston. There's a small wood burner in the main bar and a collection of teapots in the dining area. Letting rooms include three brick built chalets and two eco-friendly pod units to the rear of the building.
A range of main dishes and snacks is offered, with various mid-week special offers and a carvery on Sunday.
Real Ales are mostly sourced from local brewers.
In the summer months the pub may also be open on Mondays, including Bank Holidays.
Opening hours:
Mon: closed
Tue: 1700-"close"
Wed-Thu: 1200-1430, 1700-"close"
Fri-Sun: 1200-"close"
Facilities
Accommodation available
Beer garden or other outside drinking area
Bus stop nearby (see transport links for details)
Dogs welcome
Evening meals
Family friendly
Lunchtime meals (not just snacks)
Parking
Real fire
Separate bar
Traditional pub games available: darts
WiFi available
Railway station about 4.0 miles away (see transport links for details)
Gallery
Nearest railway station
Saxmundham: 4 miles (6.4km)Other nearby Suffolk pubs
Parrot 0.71 mile
Royal Standard 1.18 miles
Bar 1.19 miles
Engineers' Arms 1.20 milesHistorical interest
The pub is shown on this old OS map from about 1903 (interactive map)
Owner/operator: Adnams
Brick pub, recently acquired by Adnams and tastefully redecorated in stripped pine. No food Mon. eve.
Beers: Adnams Bitter, Old, Broadside; Whitbread Boddington's Bitter.CAMRA's 1997 Suffolk Real Ale Guide
Also listed at Coldfair Green.
The 1879 Kelly's Directory records the address as Cold Fair Green, Knodishall-cum-Buxlow.
At the Halesworth Petty Sessions held in January 1885 the license for the Butcher’s arms, Knoddishall, was transferred from Nathaniel Cockerell the elder to Nathaniel Cockerell the younger. Ipswich Journal, Jan 1885**
The Frog 'n' Toad name was evidently short-lived as the historical record shows the Butchers' Arms name going back a long way.
Landlords
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(some old PO directory information courtesy of londonpublichouse.com)
(** historic newspaper information from Stuart Ansell)
