Historic house museums in Cornwall

tidal island in Mount's Bay, Cornwall

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

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Grade I listed historic house museum in Cornwall, England, UK

Pencarrow is a Grade II*-listed country house in the civil parish of Egloshayle, in north Cornwall, England. It is situated three miles (5 km) east-southeast of Wadebridge and three miles (5 km) north-northwest of Bodmin. ==History== Sir John Molesworth, the fourth Molesworth baronet, started the construction of Pencarrow in the 1760s, extending a large older house on the site, and it was completed after his death in 1766, by his son, the fifth baronet, also Sir John Molesworth. The architect was probably Robert Allanson. The initial remodelling of the house may have begun around 173

thumb|Trerice House thumb|Trerice House, great hall. Above the overmantel at left appears the date "1572", assumed to indicate the date of the house's construction. The small openings high in the far wall are to the [[minstrels' gallery. The 20 foot long refectory table was made in situ during the Aclands' ownership, of oak from their Holnicote estate in Somerset, and is too large to be removed from the room]] Trerice (pronounced Tre-rice) is an historic manor in the parish of Newlyn East (Newlyn in Pydar), near Newquay, Cornwall, United Kingdom. The surviving Tudor manor house known as Treric

house museum in Cornwall, England, UK