Griffin Inn

Grade II-listed inn with a modern minimalist feel. Taken over by the St Austell Brewery in autumn 2018, refurbished and re-opened in Oct 2018 . Now selling a much larger range of spirits but a smaller range of cask ales and craft beers. Note that the location of the gents and ladies has been swapped over - gents now on ground floor. The Griffin Inn was established on this site in 1730 with the present buildings that make up the pub being built over the next 100 years. There is also archaeological evidence that the site was in use during and before the 1600s as an inn on the Bristol Road before the present building. The name refers to the griffin sitting on the Lansdown Monument, commemorating the Cornish Royalist hero, Sir Bevil Grenville who died at the Battle of Lansdown on 1643. The earliest documentary evidence is of a license granted to William Pomeroy "To keep a common Inn and Alehouse" for the consideration of El 0 in 1776.