android appWrentham Five Bells
opening hours
- Mon-Sun: 1200-2300
food times
- Mon-Sun: 1200-1430, 1800-2100
regular real ales
- Adnams Broadside [H]
- Adnams Ghost Ship [H]
- Adnams Southwold Bitter [H]
guest beers
This pub serves 1 guest ale.
source: Local
Adnams
Local licensing authority for Wrentham is East Suffolk
CAMRA North-East Suffolk branch.
last updated Apr 25th, 2021.
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Wrentham Five Bells
East, 52.37788,1.67064
Real Ale is sold here.
Southwold Rd, NR34 7JD
grid reference TM 499 818
opened pre-1874
owner/operator: Adnams
A single bar with seating leads to a restaurant. Outside there is a large garden and patio area. Accommodation is available in rooms on a B&B basis and touring caravans can also be accommodated on-site. At one time, it was said that the bells of five churches could be heard from its location.
The pub is on the parish boundary and is most commonly said to be located in Wrentham, though definitive maps show it's actually in South Cove.
The licensing magistrates were evidently a bit confused about the pub in 1879 - they licensed it as the Eight Bells!
Facilities
Accommodation available: some rooms + touring caravan site
Beer garden or other outside drinking area
Bus stop nearby (see transport links for details)
Camping or caravan site nearby: (close to the pub)
Dogs welcome: inside the pub only outside of food service times and only on lead in garden because there are free-roaming chickens
Evening meals
Family friendly
Lunchtime meals (not just snacks)
Parking
Pub sells beer from local brewers
Quiet pub - no electronic games, piped music or jukebox
Restaurant or separate dining area
Separate bar
WiFi available
Gallery
Nearest railway station
Brampton: 6.7 miles (10.8km)Other nearby Suffolk pubs
Horse & Groom 0.41 mile
Angel Inn 2.6 miles
Randolph 2.8 miles
Livingstone's 3.2 miles
Sailors Home 3.4 milesHistorical interest
The pub is shown on this old OS map from about 1903 (interactive map)
To be let for a term of years; that old established house, the Five Bells, South Cove, adjoining the public road, leading from Lowestoft to Southwold; with a 4 stall stable, brewhouse, warehouse, and about 2 acres of land. The premises are in good repair for further particulars apply to Mr John Scott, Shaddingfield.Ipswich Journal, August 1835**
At the Halesworth Petty Sessions of April 1875, the license to the Five Bells, South Cove, was transferred from William Harrod to William Chipperfield.Ipswich Journal, April 1875**
Landlords
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(** historic newspaper information from Stuart Ansell)
