The ThatchedInn

The Thatched Inn sits on Hillsborough Road in Ilfracombe inside a seventeenth-century building recorded on the Historic England list, run today as a family pub through its own independent limited company rather than a pub group tenancy. The bar keeps a rotating selection of cask ales alongside lagers, wines and spirits, and holds Cask Marque's Certificate of Excellence for the condition in which its real ale is served. There is a beer garden where dogs are welcome, though they are not permitted inside the bar itself. The pub trades as a genuine local rather than a food-led gastropub, with the emphasis on the drinks range and the building's age rather than an extensive kitchen menu. It sits on the hill above Ilfracombe harbour, a short walk from the town centre.