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Date of photo: 2015	Photo © Jo Turner
The Vernon Arms was situated on Main Road. Grade-II listed Coaching Inn of 1671 with 18th century additions and alterations. Pevsner tells us it was built by George Vernon (1636–1702). George started building Sudbury Hall shortly after the restoration of King Charles II in 1660 and at the same time he rebuilt the Estate village. Directories list the following landlords, 1829 Richard Hollis, 1855 Joh Walker also farmer, 1870 Job Jackson and 1874-1895 Edward Sherwin. The owners announced that they would retire and the inn would close on the 6th January 2019 and would be ‘undergoing an extensive period of refurbishment’ and closed for the foreseeable future.
Source: Steve Turner
Listed building details:
Public house and stables. 1671 and C18. Red brick with sandstone dressings, plain tile roofs with two large brick ridge stacks. Chamfered stone coped gables with ball finials. Flush stone quoins. Two storeys with stables behind enclosing a courtyard. Symmetrical nine bay south elevation, centre bay advanced and gabled, and projecting gabled outer bays. Central carriage entrance with segmental arch. Rusticated stone piers, moulded imposts, keystone and voussoirs. Flanked on each side by three 2-light recessed and chamfered mullion windows. First floor has a central 3-light mullion window flanked on each side by two similar 2-light windows either side of a 3-light window. Centre window has a moulded hoodmould, and in the gable a sash panel with a relief of the Vernon arms. Projecting outer bays have two 2-light mullion windows to ground floor and a similar 3-light window above with moulded hoodmould. Small slit window in the gables. Gables have ball finials, between them are two roof dormers with hipped roofs. Above the central arch are a C19 wrought iron bracket supporting the sign, and two lamps on cast iron brackets. West elevation has two tiers of 2-light recessed and chamfered mullion windows and two roof dormers. Range of C18 stables behind with central carriage arch in line with carriage arch from street range. Interior has stud partitions and a staircase with splat balusters.
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