De Wynns

About

If you are looking for the best cream tea, delicious cakes, home style prepared and cooked dishes, a pot of speciality tea served in china, a cup of locally roasted coffee all served by friendly staff, then look no further. We are also very dog friendly.

Story

This Coffee House takes its name from a Mr de Wynn who in the 1780’s, built a hotel on the site.

The hotel covered the site of the two bow-windowed shops, with wharves at the rear containing stables and a coach house. It became a popular meeting place for Packet Ship Captains awaiting orders to convey mail to all parts of the globe from the second largest Post Office in England.

de Wynn followed closely the experiments of William Murdoch of Redruth, the first man in England to light his house with gas in 1784. In 1822 he turned the hotel into two shops, both with the unusually large bow windows which we believe are the largest double bows (with a nine inch bulge) in the country.

The Coffee Shop was established by Jean & Colin Nunn in March 1983. It is now run by their son Keith and his wife Liz .