Pub history

The Queen’s Head Hotel

This three-storey property is one of several listed buildings on one of Tavistock’s oldest thoroughfares. It was refurbished in the late 1990s, as Brown’s Hotel. During the refurbishment, a ‘holy well’ was uncovered which once provided fresh water for Tavistock Abbey. Brown’s Hotel was previously the long-standing Queen’s Head, an old coaching inn with ‘extensive stabling and yards’. In the 18th century, the Queen’s Head was one of Tavistock’s many hostelries.