The Cornish Arms

The Cornish Arms is a public house located on the south side of Fore Street in Hayle. It dates from the 18th century or early 19th century and was remodelled around the late 19th century. The building features a stuccoed front and has a half-hipped grouted scantle slate roof, although the rear has been replaced with corrugated asbestos. There are painted brick chimneys at both ends and over a cross wall towards the right, suggesting that there may have originally been two parallel roofs. The building has cast-iron ogee gutters.

The Cornish Arms has a double depth plan, which may indicate it was originally two houses with a single depth. It now consists of three rooms along the front with two entrance halls or passages between them. At the rear, there is an irregular arrangement of service rooms that extend deeper at both the far left and right.

The exterior is two storeys high and features a fairly regular overall five-window front facing the northwest road. On the left side, there is a wider three-window front with a doorway positioned to the left of the middle window, and two windows to the right of the doorway. There is a late 19th-century partly glazed box porch with the original side door. On the right side, there is a two-window front with a doorway beneath the left-hand window, which contains a 19th-century four-panelled door with later glazed top panels. There are two additional windows to the right of this doorway on the ground floor. All the windows are late 19th-century four-pane horned sashes.

The interior was not inspected. During the tenancy of Edward Chegwin from around 1867 to 1873, this building, originally a beer shop, was upgraded to an inn and renamed the Cornish Arms.