PRE-APPLICATION advice is being sought on changing an historic Launceston building back into a hotel.

A pre-application has been submitted to Cornwall Council about potentially turning Eagle House back into a hotel.

The Post has previously reported on the Georgian townhouse, which was recently granted planning permission by Cornwall Council have its use changed from hotel to residential.

Eagle House is listed for sale as an eight to 15 bedroom house through Knight Smith for £675,000. The estate agent described it as ‘one of the prettiest Georgian houses in the South West’.

The Grade II* listed property was built in about 1760 as a residential property and became a guest house in the early 1960s.

Arthur Vennings’s ‘The Book of Launceston’, 1976, states that Eagle House was built by Coryndon Carpenter. His family had lived at Dockacre and, as Constable of the Castle, he was in a good position to secure a site in Castle Street. He bought a lottery ticket and gave it to his fiancee. It came up, to the tune of £10,000, a vast sum in those days, and he promptly married the girl and built the house.

Cornwall Council’s east sub area planning committee in February allowed Eagle House to be changed from a hotel to a residence by 11 votes to four at its meeting in February.

Launceston town councillors at their planning committee meeting last Thursday, December 1, noted pre-application advice is being sought.

Deputy mayor Cllr Margaret Young said: “This is wonderful,” while committee chairman Cllr Rob Tremain added: “That’s great news.”