The house, and its surrounding cottage garden, are in the ownership of the National Trust, and the building is Grade I listed.

[1][2] The name dates from the Victorian period when it briefly held a licence to be the letter receiving station for the district.

[3] 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.

She and a number of other artists then raised money to enable the National Trust to buy it from her.

[4] Media related to Tintagel Old Post Office at Wikimedia Commons