According to "Sudbury through the ages" (by Barry L. Wall, approximately 1984)*** this is traditionally supposed to have been an ale house run by the Friars. It was constructed against the Friary wall and parts may certainly date back to the fifteenth century so it could possibly have once claimed to be the towns oldest Inn. It once had a gable fronting the street but this was removed in the 17th century when the western extension was annexed to it.

The inn has some associations with Sudbury’s wicked electoral past and there are tales of human bones being found in the walls after a fire last century (1800’s). A more pleasant memory is that Julian Tennyson wrote much of “Suffolk Scene” while staying here.…