The Crown Inn, Lanlivery

The Crown Inn

Lanlivery, Bodmin PL30 5BT

Grade C · TraditionTrading · checked Sept 2026

The Crown Inn is dated 1100 by CAMRA. No earlier record has been found.

Claimed

1100

First record

none found

Building

no single date

The building. Probably early 17th-century in origin, with alterations and additions of the later 17th and early 18th centuries and a probable early 18th-century cross wing (Historic England 1144247).

Rooms

Food

Real ale

Beer garden

Dog friendly

The claim

On the Saints' Way pilgrim route near Fowey, the Crown is a long, low farmhouse-style inn said to date from the 12th century, when it sheltered the builders of the church tower opposite; its listing reads the house as probably early 17th-century. A well found in the porch during restoration sits under glass. Inside are slate floors, a vast inglenook and Cornish ales.

What the records show

The 12th-century date is CAMRA's: its Cornwall entry calls the Crown a 12th-century listed pub on the Saints' Way, and the inn's own website gives no date at all. The listing the grade was recorded from has now been read. Historic England designated the Crown on 28 August 1987 and calls it an inn, probably of early 17th-century origin, with alterations and additions of the later 17th and early 18th centuries, a probable early 18th-century cross wing at the upper end, and changes in the 19th and 20th. It describes a three-room through-passage plan with the hall heated by a front lateral stack, a stair tower probably added to the front in the late 17th century, and inside a very wide gable-end fireplace with a stepped granite arch, an unusually deep granite-lined oven and hooks for smoking in the flue. The story of the house lodging the builders of the church is tradition repeated in guides, and no dendrochronology or record confirming medieval inn use has been traced.

What to look for inside

Medieval well visible beneath glass in the porch
Traditionally built for church builders on the Saints' Way
Bedrooms in a converted piggery

Visiting

The Crown Inn is in Lanlivery, England, at Lanlivery, Bodmin PL30 5BT. We do not list opening times, because they change; the pub’s own site is the place to check before you set out.

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