Red Post Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. House, cottage.

Red Post Inn

WRENN ID
quiet-corner-dock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
Country
England
Type
House, cottage
Address
Red Post Inn, Launcells
OS grid reference
SS 263 052
Coordinates
50.8203, -4.46607
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Red Post Inn is a house and cottage that was formerly a public house, dating from the 18th century. It is colourwashed and rendered, likely built from cob on a stone plinth, with a thatched roof that is half hipped at the gable ends and features a rendered ridge stack. There is evidence that the left end, now used as a separate cottage, is an addition or has been rebuilt, indicated by a break in the roof line and a change in the plane of the front. The right end of the house was probably originally two rooms with a through passage, and the stack on the right end was dismantled in the 20th century.

At the rear, there is an outshut, with the one to the rear left being slightly higher. The two-storey front has an off-centre enclosed gabled porch with a slate roof and a 20th-century door. There is also a further entrance into the ground floor on the left, which is now the cottage. The ground floor features three timber two-light casements, each with three panes per light, while the first floor has five similar casements with slate sills, with the one above the porch being slightly smaller. Inside, there is a large fireplace associated with the ridge stack. The roof timbers on the right end are halved and pegged, and the slate roofs of the outshuts are painted with bitumen.

Local climate

Red Post Inn sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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