Cotehele

thumb|Cotehele and its Italian garden terrace thumb|upright|Arms of Edgcumbe, Earls of Mount Edgcumbe: ''Gules, on a bend ermines cotised or three boar's heads couped argent'' Cotehele is a medieval house with Tudor additions, situated in the parish of Calstock in the east of Cornwall, England, and now belonging to the National Trust. It is a rambling granite and slate-stone manor house on the banks of the River Tamar that has been little changed over five centuries. It was built by the Edgecumbe family in 1485 after the original Manor House was pulled down. Sir Richard Edgecumbe came into the