Corwall Historic Houses

Antony House 

An 18th century house overlooking the Lynber River, and has been the home of the Carew family since the 15th century. The house was built between 1711-1721 for Sir William Carew. Around the house are formal gardens established in the 18th century with design help from Humphrey Repton,Topiary and yew hedges were added in 1800 by Pole Carew. The gardens include the national collection of day lilies.
Torpoint,  PL11 2QATel: 01752 812191  Email

Boconnoc House

With its surrounding estate this is one of the most beautiful locations in hidden Cornwall. Ideally situated for all corporate and private events, Boconnoc currently offers a unique combination of facilities including entertainment rooms and accommodation.

It has one of the most beautiful of all spring gardens and still has camellias and azaleas from the original 1850 planting.The main house, empty since 1969, is open for viewing prior to the extensive programme of restoration that will be carried out over the next two years.

Lostwithiel  PL22 0RG  Tel: 01208 872507

Cotehele House 

Once owned by the Edgcumbe family for nearly six centuries. One of the least-altered medieval houses in the country, it contains original furniture, armour and a remarkable set of tapestries.

There is a steeply terraced garden with pools, dovecote and the Prospect Tower, a working watermill and adjoining estate workshops, industrial ruins in the Danescombe Valley, and the Quay with a tea room, art and craft gallery and museum, and the restored Tamar sailing barge Shamrock moored alongside

St Dominick Saltash PL12 6TATel: 01579 351346  Email

Godolphin House

A granite-built Tudor and Stuart house. The house seen today is a remnant of a far larger building that was the home of the Godolphin family until the middle of the 18th century. The rooms are suitably furnished with good pieces of old furniture and tapestries.  Some of the furniture is original to the house, having been bought back by the present owner.  The house has extensive farm buildings and the original  Elizabethan stables.  Remnants of the old formal gardens can be seen on the north and east sides of the house. 

Godolphin Cross, Helston, TR13 9RE Tel: 01736 763194 

Lanhydrock House 

One of the finest houses in Cornwall, superbly set in wooded parkland of 450 acres and encircled by a garden of rare shrubs and trees. The House has 49 rooms ranging from the rooms reflecting Victorian comfort to maids’ bedrooms, the great kitchen and the newly-opened Nursery Wing. Through the crenellated gatehouse (1651) an idyllic walk down to the River Fowey at Respryn Bridge and back through the woods should not be missed.

 Lanhydrock, PL30 5AD  Tel: 01208 265 950  Email

Mount Edgecumbe House and Country Park.

Sir Richard Edgcumbe of Cotehele built a new home at Mount Edgcumbe in 1547-53. Furnished with family possessions, including paintings by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Gerard Edema and William van der Velde, Irish bronze age horns, 16th century tapestries and 18th century Chinese and Plymouth porcelain.

The two acre garden was created beside the House. Also set within the 865 acres of the Country Park is the restored formal 18th century Gardens in Italian, French and English style, modern American and New Zealand sections. One of only three Grade I listed Cornish Gardens. National Camellia Collection.

Cremyll Torpoint  PL10 1HZ    Tel: 01752 822 236 Email

Pencarrow

The present Georgian House was completed by Sir John Molesworth, 5th Baronet, circa 1770. The East side has an imposing Palladian entrance; on the West can be seen part of an older house; whilst the back faces a courtyard, cottages, Tea Rooms and a Children’s Play Area.

The interior contains an impressive inner hall and vaulted ceiling and a vast heating stove made in Plymouth in the 1830s. The music room has a fine plaster ceiling depicting the four seasons; with simulated birds-eye maple grained panelled walls.

There is a collection of paintings with works by Arthur Devis, Samuel Scott, Richard Wilson, Henry Raeburn and many other well known artists and some outstanding furniture and porcelain. 

Pencarrow, Bodmin, PL30 3AG Tel: 01208 265 950  Email

Prideaux Place

Completed in 1592, Prideaux Place has been the home of the Prideaux-Brune family all this time. The house has been enlarged and modified by successive generations. Today it combines the traditional E-shape of Elizabethan architecture with the 18th century exuberance of Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill Gothic.

The house is filled with treasures, including royal and family portraits, fine furniture and the Prideaux Porcelain Collection. The recently uncovered ceiling in the Great Chamber is a masterpiece of the Elizabethan plasterer’s art

Padstow  PL28 8RP  Tel: 01841 532 411  Email

Trerice 

Elizabethan manor house with fine interiors and delightful garden. Rebuilt in 1573 by Sir John Arundell IV. Behind the Dutch-style gabled façade are ornate fireplaces, elaborate plaster ceilings and a collection of English furniture of the highest quality.

Kestle Mill, nr Newquay,  TR8 4PG  Tel: 01637 875404 Email

Trewithen House 

A fine early Georgian squire’s house set in a splendid woodland garden.  The house was created by three generations of the Hawkins family.  The house has some excellent pieces of 18th and early-19th century furniture and there is a splendid collection of blue-and-white porcelain.   Paintings include works by foreign artists such as Hondecoeter and Van de Velde. and the 18th century British portraits by Allan Ramsay, John Opie and James Northcote but the most important are by Sir Joshua Reynolds. The gardens with their collection of exotic trees and shrubs were largely created by George Johnstone in the early 20th century. 

Grampound Road Truro TR2 4DD  Tel: 01726 883 647  Email