Leavenheath Hare & Hounds
opening hours
- Mon-Tue: closed
- Wed-Thu: 1500-2300
- Fri-Sat: 1200-2300
- Sun: 1200-2000
food times
- Mon-Tue: closed
- Wed-Thu: 1800-2100
- Fri-Sat: 1200-1430, 1800-2100
- Sun: 1200-1700
regular cask ales
- Crouch Vale Brewers Gold [H]
- Greene King IPA [H]
guest beers
This pub serves 1 guest ale.
listed building grade II
Local licensing authority for Leavenheath is Babergh
CAMRA West Suffolk & Borders branch.
last updated May 8th, 2025.
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Leavenheath Hare & Hounds
formerly Hare
West, 52.00067,0.84558
Cask Ale is sold here.
Harrow St (A134), CO6 4PW
grid reference TL 954 374
free house
owner/operator: Hare and Hounds (Leavenheath) Ltd
Open-plan pub with a single bar now offering two ales permanently on tap along with one ever-changing guest beer from small local brewers. Cellar refitted in Jan 2012 and the current owner (as at October 2025) purchased it in 2013. Pub is popular with local football and cricket teams. The building dates from the early 19th century and has a L-shaped counter in a large open-plan single bar and a large garden and car-park.
Facilities
Accessible to disabled customers
Beer festivals: Last weekend in July and Oktoberfest.
Beer garden or other outside drinking area
Dogs welcome
Evening meals
Family friendly
Live music
Lunchtime meals (not just snacks)
Parking
Real fire
Separate bar
Smoking area
Special events
Traditional pub games available
Railway station about 4.9 miles away (see transport links for details)
Gallery
Nearest railway station
Bures: 4.9 miles (7.9km)Other nearby Suffolk pubs
Shoulder of Mutton 1.32 miles
White Hart 2.0 miles
Fleece 2.0 miles
Angel 2.2 miles
Crown 2.2 miles
Anchor Inn 2.4 milesHistorical interest
The pub is shown on this old OS map from about 1902 (interactive map)
Owner/operator: Greene King
Recently modernised pub providing a genuinely warm welcome. The large garden incorporates a steel quoits pitch and children's play area.
Beers: Greene King XX Mild, IPA, seasonal ale, Abbot.CAMRA's 1997 Suffolk Real Ale Guide
Prior to 1851, the pub was in Stoke by Nayland so will appear in old records under that village.
To be sold...a Messuage, with the Apputenances used as a Publick-House, and called the Hare and Hounds, Stoke next Nayland, now in the Occupation of Thomas Eastall.Ipswich Journal, July 31st 1756***
At the annual licensing meeting for Boxford, Mr Baker Hazell applied for the license for the Hare and Hounds, Stoke, which had been closed for some time…
Landlords
Footnote
NOTE: A messuage equates to a dwelling-house and may include outbuildings, orchard, curtilage or court-yard and garden - this may have been an earlier structure to the current property.
(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)
(*** historic newspaper information from Bob Mitchell)
(**** Last Orders is a free local newsletter - published by Suffolk CAMRA members since 1978)
