The Molesworth Arms Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 November 1970. A 17th century Coaching inn, public house. 8 related planning applications.
The Molesworth Arms Hotel
- WRENN ID
- quartered-cobalt-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 November 1970
- Type
- Coaching inn, public house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Molesworth Arms Hotel is a coaching inn, now functioning as a public house, dating from the late 17th century. It features a stuccoed, rendered, and painted stone rubble exterior with chamfered quoins. The roof is covered with bitumen-coated rag slate, having a gable end on the right and a hipped end on the left. There are brick axial stacks on the front slope towards the left and an end stack on the right.
The inn has undergone significant alterations and extensions in the 19th and 20th centuries, making the original plan uncertain. It likely began as a single-depth, two-room layout with a wide arch that allowed coaches to access the stables and coach house at the rear. A mid-18th century extension added a one-room plan to the rear left, which was further extended in the early and mid-19th centuries, resulting in an overall 'L' shaped plan. The inn was also expanded into the adjoining property on the right. In the early to mid-20th century, the wide archway was blocked off to create a vestibule and reception area. As of 1986, the stables and coach house at the rear were undergoing considerable alterations for conversion to domestic use.
The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical five-window front. It features a late 17th-century open porch supported by two granite Doric columns and a moulded cornice, with a 20th-century part-glazed door. To the left, there are two wide 20th-century 24-pane sash windows, and to the right, a 20th-century door. The first floor has two early 19th-century and three late 19th or 20th-century 12-pane sash windows.
Inside, the inn has been much altered, but some remains of 18th and 19th-century panelling have been reset. There is a 19th-century granite lintel over a fireplace in the rear left wing and a 19th-century staircase with stick balusters and a wreathed rail.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 8 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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