The Old Post Office, Coverack was built in the year 1660 on an outcrop of rocks on the sea shore this building is steeped in history, and has had many uses over the years, listed as a house of historical interest with many of it's origins still featuring. In the days of smuggling it was the head quarters for the area. Then in the hey day of the Pilchard industry presses were used to extract the oil for the use in rush lamps, for lighting. On the outside wall on the seaward side there are still inset holes once used in the process of pressing the pilchards. Later the property became a public house were on special occasions the publican Mr Joe Lory would go by donkey to Mawgan to fetch a fiddler to provide music for the evening in a room that was called the 'Dancing Room' now the sitting room. Towards the end of the last century the property became the first village post office with the mail being delivered by horseback from Helston. In the 1914-18 war it became the headquarters for the home guard. Owned by the Roskilly family, it became a general store for many years, then a self catering holiday property and now to be re-incarnated as a Bed & Breakfast.
We hope you enjoy staying.Jake & Annette Roskilly
