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listed building grade II
last updated Aug 30th, 2024.
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Stonham Aspal Ten Bells
also traded as Six Bells?
South West, 52.19248,1.12095
closed 20th March 2013
opened 16th century
The St, IP14 6AF
grid reference TM 134 595
The pub is shown on this old OS map from about the end of the 19th century. interactive map
This 16th century pub had three bars and a toilet for disabled customers.
According to Alfred Hedges' book, "Inns and Inn Signs of Norfolk and Suffolk", the name refers not to the number of bells in the local church, but to "the activities of the local team of handbell ringers".
It has been closed since March 20th 2013. A local campaign was organised to buy the pub for the village, but this failed to raise enough money.
After some time as Casa Mexico, a shop selling meso-American trinkets, the building is now residential.
Owner/operator: Pubmaster
C16th pub retaining three bars. Landlord keen to promote cask ale; no keg bitter or mild.
Beers: Tetley Bitter; Whitbread Boddington's Mild, Bitter; Whitbread Castle Eden; guest beer( Pubmaster list)CAMRA's 1997 Suffolk Real Ale Guide
Gallery
Legends Sports Bar 0.80 mile
Rose 1.73 miles
Highwayman 2.7 miles
Woolpack 3.4 miles
Lion 3.4 miles
Three Tuns 3.9 milesHistorical interest
James Gardiner, from the Ten Bells, Stonham Aspall, has taken the Crown at Coddenham and is opening the most pleasant and agreeable Bowling-Green.Ipswich Journal, April 21st 1759***
Died on the 2nd December 1805, Mr Tydeman, of the "Six Bells"? in Stonham.Ipswich Journal, Dec 1805**
To be sold by auction, at the Ten Bells, Stonham Aspel, all the household furniture, linen, rare old china, glass, tin and wood ware, stock in trade, working tools and other effects, of Mr Clarke Tydeman, publican and blacksmith, deceased, (by order of the Administrator); comprising 6 featherbeds and bedding, mahogany 4-post and other bedsteads and hangings, mahogany dining and other tables, parlour, kitchen, and chamber chairs; copper goods, etc., with general assortment of domestic requisites…
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)
(*** historic newspaper information from Bob Mitchell)
Old OS map reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.
