December 2023 Update: The pub was closed for two years and is reopening in phases after major refurbishment. Currently, the bar only is open on Friday from 1500 - 2300, Saturday from 1200 - 2300 and Sunday from 1200 - 1800 only under the kitchen refurbishment is completed. The kitchen is currently undergoing a £100k refurbishment and will be fully open in Spring 2024. During this period, they are able to offer limited bar snacks including fresh, filled baguettes, jacket potatoes, soup and pasties. They are currently serving up to three beers from the close by Dartmoor Brewery and one real cider from Sandford Orchards (Devon Red, may vary).
Situated at the junction of the B3212 and B3357, this is Princetown’s oldest building (1785). It features granite walls, slate floors and slate-topped tables. A later addition is the large family/function room with its own bar and bunkhouse above.
Food is now available. The kitchen was planned to be open on Tuesdays to Sundays between midday and 1500 and 1730 and 2000 - please contact the pub for confirmation.
Camping and motorhome pitches are available, as is the bunkhouse – contact the pub for details.
Some details here may be incorrect until we can re-survey the pub – sorry for any inconvenience. April 2024 Update: The pub website states that the kitchen work is now complete and the pub is now open from Wednesday to Sunday from noon each day. Food is now also available - please contact the pub for operating and food service timings.
Historic Interest
Grade-II listed 28/10/1987, externally listed. List Entry No 117 0872, Legacy System No 92792. Inn. Circa late C18 or early C19. Stone rubble walls, slate hung and colour washed at the front. Slate roof, hipped at either end of central block, gabled to front of wings. 2 large granite axial stacks. Plan: designed as an inn with a central section consisting originally probably of 2 heated rooms, now one, and with a smaller room each side projecting slightly to the front as wings. Outshuts added at either end in later C19. 3 storeys. Regular 4-window front with projecting gabled wing to either side and windows disposed 1:2:1. The right-hand wing has probably original 16-pane hornless sashes to 2nd and 1st floors with a small-paned C19 casement on the ground floor. The central section has C20 casements on the 2nd floor, C19 12-pane sashes on the 1st floor either side of a C20 French window leading to a balcony between the 2 wings. C19 small-paned casements on ground floor to either side of a C20 glazed porch with door in right-hand side. The left-hand wing has a C20 2-light casement on the 2nd floor, a late C19 6-pane sash below and C19 3-light casement on the ground floor. Interior: plain stone openings to fireplaces which are likely originally to have had grates.
This Pub serves no changing beers and 3 regular beers.
Plume Of Feathers Inn, Princetown