Forgotten Houses

Sleeps: 2

Changeover: Saturday

Per week:
£495

Trereife House is predominantly a Queen Anne Manor House, with a beautiful parterre garden in front. The house and gardens are set in the countryside, just outside Penzance. Within these beautiful Victorian buildings surrounding the courtyard is a recently re-furbished first floor holiday flat for two people. The location affords easy access to the beaches and the many other holiday attractions West Cornwall provides, as well as a quiet retreat in the country. The house has easy access to the main trunk roads and railway connections, and Newquay Airport is also within easy striking distance.

Sleeps: 4-5

Changeover: Saturday

Per week:
£290-£595

The ultimate romantic lost home. Between Falmouth and Helston, near Helford Estuary. An ancient mill site where the miller’s farmhouse was rebuilt in 1665, retains original features including thatched roof, set in secluded wooded valley. Enormous open fireplace. Two bedrooms and bathroom but more basic features than other homes, contributing to unspoilt atmosphere. Romantic, popular, wonderful, but for the more adventurous.

Sleeps: 4

Changeover: Saturday

Per week:
£260-£595

In an old farm settlement north of Mevagissey. It has stone walled gardens facing north and south. This listed building retains rag slate roof, stone arched doorways, mullioned windows and traditional feeling. High ceilinged sitting room, a tiny gallery, wood burner, oil fired Rayburn. Close to the Eden Project. A working farm with friendly owners.

Sleeps: 4 + cot

Changeover: Saturday

Per week:
£345-£545

Charming granite estate lodge from 1884, listed and retaining its original features. South facing with large garden of lawns and trees set in farmland and woods with good walking. Near pub, riding stables, access to the coast, Helford estuary and the Lizard. Storage heaters, wood burner and open fire.

Sleeps: 4

Changeover: Saturday

Per week:
£250-£610

The mill is at the bottom of the tiny valley about 600 yards south of Port Isaac. Built in the late 18th C with thick walls of the local stone, the house was provided storage for the adjacent older mill building. The conversion was finished in 2003, aiming to keep as many features as possible, but remain comfortable and practical. Can be combined with Wheel Barn to sleep 10. Dogs allowed.

Sleeps: 4

Changeover: Saturday

Per week:
£265-£630

A stunning listed stone building from 1772, just outside Port Isaac on the north coast close to beaches and cliffs. Upstairs sitting room looking over fields with original arched beam roof. Oil central heating. A working farm with great position and views.

Sleeps: 4-6 + cot

Changeover: Saturday

Per week:
£435-£620

West of Falmouth. Quiet sixteenth century cottage and barn with great granite lintels and quoins in quiet backwater. Big sitting room, a big kitchen and walled garden. Wood burning stove and electric radiators. Good walks, views and close to beaches.

Sleeps: 4-6

Changeover: Saturday

Per week:
£360-£820

Badgers is just outside Constantine and near the Helford River. 400 yards from award winning remote pub. Renovated 1998. Large upstairs sitting room with wood stove, TV. Two bedrooms, (one with double, & one with twin beds). Extra childrens loft. Modern bathroom. Oil Rayburn & electric central heating. Ample safe room outside for children.

Sleeps: 4-5 + cot

Changeover: Friday

Per week:
£355-£735

On site of an Elizabethan farmstead. Large first floor sitting room, & big kitchen in fine renovation. A lovely wooded and pasture valley running up to Bodmin Moor. Comfortable and spacious high ceilinged stone building in beautiful surroundings with good views. Can be rented together with Treveddoe nearby to sleep up to 12.

Sleeps: 4-6

Changeover: Friday

Per week:
£400-£750

A bigger house in the stable yard at Boconnoc, reached after a mile of private drive. Very large, high sitting room. Kitchen (new spring 2007) and quirky and interesting interior. Deer park. Fishing in lakes, wonderful smart touring base. Three bedrooms, 3 bathrooms. Dogs allowed by arrangement.

Sleeps: 4-6

Changeover: Friday

Per week:
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Boconnoc is a private country house with deer park, church and famous gardens. The north wing includes King Charles’ room and great views. Newly refitted, quality furniture with more bedrooms planned. Outstanding, unusual. No dogs.

Sleeps: 5

Changeover: Saturday

Per week:
£360-£820

Three bedroom house in country just outside Constantine village & 400 yards from award winning pub. Oil-fired central heating and open fireplace. Open garden, lawns and fields. Convenient for the Lizard, Falmouth, Helford and cliffs, or beach. Close to Badgers.

Sleeps: 5 + cot

Changeover: Saturday

Per week:
£428-£1029

It feels really remote and is on one of Cornwall’s great stately home estates- but is only 500 yards from a beautiful beach & inlet. Renovated in the nineties this is a great forgotten house near Fowey. One of the most popular houses in Cornwall.

Sleeps: 6

Changeover: Saturday

Per week:
£340-£810

Just outside Port Isaac, the original mill was built at right angles to the hill side so that the water rushing down a leat could turn the overshot mill wheel. The millstream and water have long gone, but part of the mill wheel can be seen outside and inside, original mill machinery and workings can still be seen through a glassed in room - a very rare survival in Cornwall. The barn faces south down a beautiful little valley of meadows rising to green hills in the distance. This rare and unusual mill was renovated as a house in 2005. Can be combined with Mill Barn to sleep 10. Dogs allowed.

Sleeps: 6

Changeover: Friday

Per week:
£600-£1095
(£700-£1495 with Head Grooms)

In stable yard of grand estate, design-winning restoration retains boarded rooms, thick stone walls; many quirky features. Views over church & 18thC parkland. Five bedrooms, four bathrooms, high ceiling sitting room, central heating. 2nd big reception room. Large park for recreation. Good touring base in unique historic position. Dogs only by prior arrangement. Can be combined with Head Grooms.

Sleeps: 6-8

Changeover: Saturday

Per week:
£418-£1150

Above Port Isaac, the Waggon House has loads of space and height in old stone buildings of great quality. Renovated by experienced designers to keep all features in a simply designed quality refit. Surrounded by fields. Close to coast. Working farm. Spacious for 8 or good for 2. Dogs encouraged. Wonderful north coast base for holidays.

Sleeps: 6-7

Changeover: Saturday

Per week:
£450-£995

On the edge of a long wooded valley, all National Trust land, which contains St. Piran's Well, St. Nectan's Kieve, his spring, his washing place and a number of other wild and beautiful wooded spots is St. Yse Cottage.   Backed by a steep hillside, facing south, and with terraces that go down the valley through bluebell woods to the stream, this very comfortable house has been sympathetically modernised to a high standard using eco friendly products. It is 1500 metres, as the crow flies, from the sandy beach at Bossinney.

Sleeps: 6-7

Changeover: Saturday

Per week:
£495-£1320

Only a short distance from the historic city of Plymouth, Antony Passage is on the north bank of the River Lynher within the estuary of the River Tamar. Curlew House was built in the 1980s and is a practical and comfortable house for holidays. It is close to the water, with only the narrow road that serves the few houses at Antony Passage between it and the foreshore, and gets sun for a large part of the day, with most of the windows facing a southerly direction. The house is regularly up-dated by the owners to make it a practical and comfortable setting for a holiday. The patio, which has doors from both the kitchen and dining room, is a great place for al fresco dining.

Sleeps: 6-8 + cot

Changeover: Saturday

Per week:
£590-£1085

At end of farm drive, old stone buildings around three sides of courtyard. Very spacious & interesting. Thick walls, high ceilings. Large sitting room, big fireplace, large kitchen. Three bedrooms, two bathrooms plus two beds in attic. Good for children & dogs, three miles from Falmouth beaches. Oil fired central heating. Lots of lawn & open country.

Sleeps: 7

Changeover: Saturday (-13/8)
Friday (fm 20/8)

Per week:
£650-£1400

Quay House at the port of Flushing stands just back from the quay, facing south and has charming large rooms, a small garden to the rear and a garden and summer house on the quay side. The quay garden is in front of the house, but separated by the no-through road from Flushing. The views from the house are stunning. They look south across Falmouth bay to Falmouth, the harbour, and the hills beyond. Even at low water there is water against the pier garden and the house itself is part 18th Century and part an extension added around 1820.

Sleeps: 7 + cot

Changeover: Friday

Per week:
£418-£965

An Edwardian farmhouse on the old site of an Elizabethan mansion in beautiful small valley. Lovely remote country south east of Bodmin- half an hour from coast. Big kitchen, breakfast room and sitting room. A romantic location, central for touring. Large garden, woods fields & stream. Ping pong in Barn. Much revisited. Brilliant location. Can be rented together with Barley Crush nearby to sleep up to 12.

Sleeps: 9

Changeover: Saturday

Per week:
£510-£1195

The north coast at Godrevy has dramatic scenery and is close to sandy beaches of St Ives Bay. Rebuilt 1970s house with spectacular views and surroundings over National Trust owned headland. Towans & dunes, isolated location, enclosed gardens, gas central heating. Walk to secluded beach. Designed for family holidays but also suitable for couple with dogs.

Sleeps: 6
(10 including New House)

Changeover: Friday

Per week:
£345-£746
(£495-£952 with New House)

At the top of the Fowey river valley in a south facing hollow, Littleworth was once two small farms and a couple of other buildings. There is a grove of trees around the house, from which are good views over the valley, and the almost invisible ruins of mediaeval villages. The house has two bedrooms downstairs, with a wide hall, and large bathroom with both bath & separate shower cubicle. Upstairs, the sitting room and kitchen form one large high beamed room with hardwood timber floors. The house is well placed behind Looe, Polperro, close to Bodmin, the romantic and wild moors, and to the market town and castle of Launceston. No dogs Allowed.

Sleeps: 10 + cot

Changeover: Saturday

Per week:
£891-£1998

Rebuilt in the 1990s, on the edge of the Helford River, diagonally opposite Frenchman's Creek.  Centrally heated, spacious and full of light.  Secluded setting.  Balcony provides a quiet place to sit and view the river.  Close to some of the famous gardens of Cornwall.  A maximum of two dogs allowed.

Sleeps: 14 + cot

Changeover: Friday

Per week:
£1210-£3300

Coswyn is part of a complex of buildings making up a farming hamlet, on the outskirts of Hayle, in west Cornwall. The Barn was converted in 2005 into a spacious comfortable seven bedroomed house mixing the best of old barn with modern style and convenience. Coswyn has some truly astonishing moulded stonework. Sections of mullion windows, complete mullion windows, and other things suggest a 500 year old link with the past. There is an enormous sense of space and calm yet it is only 3 miles to the nearest beaches. No dogs.