Now offering food and drinks from a refurbished bar, the Magpie also has a separate room for playing traditional pub games.

The pub has an unusual (Grade II Listed) sign which spans the road. The building dates from the 15th century, with 16th and 19th century additions and is also Grade II Listed.

Within living memory, a live magpie was confined within a cage on the pub's wall as a living pub-sign.

It was apparently flourishing in 1471 and then or some time afterwards was owned by the local parson, who let it to a tenant together with 14 acres of land for 20 shillings per annum. In due course the parish owned the property, but in 1931 it was bought by the present owners, Messrs Tollemache & Cobbold, the Ipswich brewers. The money paid was used to meet the cost of providing a piped water supply to the village.British Inn Signs and their Stories, Eric R Delderfield, 1965

According to Alfred Hedges' 1976 book "Inns an Inn Signs of Norfolk and Suffolk", this is one of only a dozen remaining pubs in the country with a sign spanning the road. So probably fewer today...