Our story
Built with the village,
in 1831.
Halsetown was never an accident. In the early 1830s James Halse — solicitor, MP — laid out a planned village for his tin-mine workers, one of the earliest planned settlements in England. Each house came with enough land to entitle the man who lived there to a vote; the streets were drawn with intent, and the inn opened in 1831, as old as the village itself. In the hard-drinking mining years it even hosted the banquet of Halsetown's Mock Mayor.
The building still says all of it plainly: Grade II listed granite ashlar, two storeys under a half-hipped slate roof, sash windows, a wide hood over the central door, ivy climbing the front. Victorian actor Sir Henry Irving — the first actor ever knighted — grew up in this village.
The kitchen has long been the point. The inn was awarded a Michelin Bib Gourmand in 2015, was named among Hipcamp's ten best pubs in Cornwall, and built a lasting reputation for an eco-ethos and local Cornish sourcing. Today it remains what it has always been: a snug, multi-roomed country pub with log fires in the cooler months and gastro-fare worth the mile uphill from town.
“The pub itself is so sweetly designed; snug, cosy, and comfortable.”
