Neptune Inn is an historic public house located in Fore Street, Ipswich, Suffolk, England. [1] The building was originally built around 1490 [2] and is grade II* listed. [3]
Neptune Inn is an historic public house located in Fore Street, Ipswich, Suffolk, England. [1] The building was originally built around 1490 [2] and is grade II* listed. [3]
The building was bought by John Cobbold in 1845. He renovated the building, selling the old fixtures – such as linenfold panelling, an internal canopy, and carved beams – to William Burrell, a Glaswegian antique collector, who added them to the Burrell Collection, where they are to this day. [2]
In 1947 the building was bought by George Bodley Scott, the managing director of W. S. Cowell Ltd. [2] He commissioned the Royal Archaeological Institute to conduct a survey to establish the history of the building. This was conducted in 1951 and extracts appeared in a booklet published by Scott in 1970 entitled The Old Neptune Inn.
A tavern clock dating c.1740 is still in existence, although the movement was replaced in 1950. [4]
