This Pub is Permanently Closed
Primarily a restaurant.
UPDATED 09/02/25: now in use as a B&B type establishment with four rooms available on a room only basis. 'Source Bistro', another business at the same venue, provides breakfast, lunch and evening meals to all. The bistro has a different contact number and email address, which are available on the premises website.
Historic Interest
A report in the Ipswich Journal in Oct 1850 states that: Was married on the 1st, at St. Mary's Church, Bungay, Mr Stephen Wright, of the White Lion Inn, to Jane, the younger daughter of William Smith, builder all of Bungay. Also listed in 1865 with a bowling green. A report in the Ipswich Journal on 10 Jul 1802 states that: An auction (at the Kings Head Inn, Bungay) on 15 Jul 1802 included Lot 8 - All that capital freehold Inn, called The White Lion in Bungay aforesaid, consisting of 2 spacious rooms, in front of the Earsham-street, 2 parlous backward, with good cellars & wine vaults, 5 bed chambers, 4 attics, wash-house, stabling for 14 horse & all other requisite buildings, brick & tile built with a large yard & garden thereto...The estates of Mrs Ann LANE, Widow, deceased. Photographs of this pub and more historical information about it can be found at suffolk.camra.org.uk/pub/114
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