Neptune Inn, Ipswich

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]

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52°03′11″N 1°09′41″E / 52.0531°N 1.1613°E / 52.0531; 1.1613