the Rose & Crown, is a fine timber-framed Tudor building with an impressive 18th century brick façade. It is located in Tonbridge's upper High Street almost opposite The Chequers.
It was an important stopping point for the horse drawn coaches and carriages which travelled from London through Tonbridge to the coast in the 18th and early 19th centuries, with a four horse coach stopping every half hour on weekdays.
It was known in the Stuart Court, to Roundheads and Cavaliers, to the diary writers John Evelyn and Samuel Pepys and to all the travellers who passed on their way to Rye, Hastings or 'The Wells' in the wasteland to the south of the parish.
The splendid coat of arms above the porch commemorates visits made to the inn by the Duchess of Kent and her daughter, the future Queen Victoria.