The Fortescue Inn Salcombe

The Fortescue Inn stands on Union Street in Salcombe, a black timber and white-fronted pub with rooms above the bar.

The black timber and white frontage sits on the corner beside a wine shop, picnic benches set out along the cobbled street.

A bar built around a log burner

The bar keeps a row of hand pumps and spirit bottles behind stools pulled up beside a lit log burner in a stone fireplace, with a separate games room adding a pool table and booth seating beneath heavy timber beams, and gin bottles displayed behind lettered glass in the window. The dining room serves plated fish and scallops among wooden tables and a chalkboard menu, laid places set with upturned wine glasses and a cruet ready for the next sitting.

Rooms above the pub

Rooms are kept simple, each with its own bathroom, a desk and heating, a room key on a wooden fob left waiting on a folded white towel.

A roof terrace over the street

A roof terrace holds a picnic bench and chairs on artificial grass, the narrow street below running down between white and painted buildings to the estuary and moored boats.

On Union Street in the old town

The Fortescue Inn sits on Union Street within reach of both Small's Cove Beach and East Portlemouth Beach, in the heart of Salcombe.

A pub stay rather than a self-catering let

This suits a couple or small group wanting a proper pub atmosphere, bar and restaurant included, rather than cooking for themselves, the games room and roof terrace both worth an evening.