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Tintagel Old Post Office
Tintagel Old Post Office.JPG
The Old Post Office from the east
General information
Architectural style Traditional Cornish longhouse
Location Fore Street
Town or city Tintagel
Country England
Coordinates 50°39′48″N 4°45′06″W / 50.66335°N 4.75169°W / 50.66335; -4.75169
Opened 14th century
Owner National Trust
Technical details
Material Stone and slate roof
Listed Building – Grade I
Designated 19 January 1952
Reference no. 1143438

Tintagel Old Post Office is a 14th-century stone house, built to the plan of a medieval manor house, situated in Tintagel, Cornwall, England. The house, and its surrounding cottage garden, are in the ownership of the National Trust, and the building is Grade I listed.

The name dates from the Victorian period when it briefly held a licence to be the letter receiving station for the district. The Trust has restored it to this condition. It was among the early acquisitions of the Trust (1903) and closes in the winter months.

Tintagel Old Post Office (Sign)
The National Trust sign
Tintagel, postbox No. PL34 1 - geograph.org.uk - 1466528
The post box

The building was acquired by the Trust from its owner Catherine Eliza Johns (died 1925) who had employed the architect Detmar Blow to renovate it in 1896. (Blow was also responsible for some buildings at Treknow in the 1890s.) Catherine Johns had bought it in 1895 to prevent its demolition. She and a number of other artists then raised money to enable the National Trust to buy it from her.

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