Now a restaurant, this is the former Scrutchers Arms public house, earlier named The Stag. It became a restaurant in 1991 and kept the name. A Scrutcher is a tool used in the flax trade. Built in the 16th or 17th century, timber framed and stuccoed, refronted in red brick in the 18th or early 19th century with the double gabled wing added at the same time. Listed, grade II, with details at:
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Long Melford is a large village in Suffolk near the border with Essex, some 3 miles north of Sudbury. The village gained its name because it stretches for two and three quarter miles essentially along a single road. There is evidence of occupation from every period from the Mesolithic. The village contains two stately homes, Kentwell Hall and Melford Hall, is home to one of the largest and richest "wool churches" in East Anglia with fine flushwork, and a superb almshouse founded in 1573.