From the Kingsbridge & Salcombe Gazette:
A short while ago the Totnes Heritage Trust was successful in its application to the South Hams District Council to have the oldest pub in Totnes, The Kingsbridge Inn, listed as an Asset of Community Value.

Such a listing provides a local community group with an opportunity to buy The Kingsbridge Inn for use, as a pub should it come on the market for sale.
John Birch, a trustee of the Totnes Heritage Trust, reports that the owner of The Kingsbridge Inn has decided to sell the pub and this has triggered a procedure that enables a local community group to bid for the purchase of the property to the exclusion of others for a period of six months up to June 16.

John says: “The Totnes Heritage Trust will over the next few weeks be organising a meeting of those interested in saving the pub to plan the way forward.