android appNewmarket Rutland Arms
listed building grade II
last updated Aug 16th, 2021.
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Newmarket Rutland Arms
North West, 52.24477,0.40792
Closed:
opened 1815
last owner/operator: Oxford Hotels & Inns
33 High St, CB8 8NB
grid reference TL 644 634
The hotel is shown on this old OS map from about 1901 (interactive map)
Built around a cobbled courtyard this 3* hotel has connections with The Duke of Rutland. With 46 bedrooms.
Closed for refurbishment (Nov 2020)
A Victorian brewery was once based on the site.
Gallery
Golden Lion 0.02 mile
Waggon & Horses 0.02 mile
Bull 0.06 mile
Shoes 0.10 mile
Bushel 0.10 mile
White Hart 0.20 mileHistorical interest
Owner/operator: Paten Hotels
Well appointed hotel with plush lounge bar. Eve meals served in the restaurant only.
Beers: Adnams BitterCAMRA's 1997 Suffolk Real Ale Guide
In 1844 this was listed as a posting inn.
According to Alfred Hedges' book, "Inns and Inn Signs of Norfolk and Suffolk, the present building was constructed some time after the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, on the site of an earlier inn called the Ram, which itself replaced an even earlier inn whose name is unknown.
Died on the 25th, at Newmarket, aged 51, William Bacon, fist post-lad at the Rutland Arms Hotel.Ipswich Journal, April 1870**
In 1922 it was listed as a first class family hotel with garage & billiards; near golf links.
Landlords
(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)
Old OS map reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.
