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
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 November 1970
Type
Coaching inn, public house
Address
The Molesworth Arms Hotel, 38, Molesworth Street, Wadebridge, PL27 7DP
OS grid reference
SW 989 723
Coordinates
50.51645, -4.83794
Source
Historic England listing

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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.

Local climate

The Molesworth Arms Hotel sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% 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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