 The Red Feather Inn is a heritage listed building in Hadspen 's main street . It was built as a coaching inn and in the 21st century has been used for a restaurant and accommodation . The building 's frontage is a substantial sandstone single @-@ storey building . Land falls away sharply from the street and the building 's rear has two @-@ storeys . Rising affluence in the 1840s had enabled growth of the coach transport industry . When built the Red Feather Inn was the first horse @-@ change point on the road from Launceston , 8 miles ( 13 km ) away , to Deloraine , and it was one of the colony 's earliest coaching inns . It was built , starting in 1842 , for local police magistrate Charles Arthur . It was built by John Sprunt , also builder of Macquarie House in Launceston 's civic square , using convict hewn sandstone blocks . 
