- Sleeps 4
- 2 bedrooms
- Perfect for a family
- Close to the picturesque Helford River, Helston and Falmouth
- Surrounded by countryside
- Dog Friendly
- Fireplace
The House
Mellinzeath has a sitting room combined with kitchen, two bedrooms and bathroom. The second bedroom has a small, high bunk for a third child. The timber kitchen is basic but has built in cooker and hob, fridge, fitted table and benches. Downstairs the floors are the original rough granite or slate and the upstairs bedrooms both have wide timber floorboards, both with rugs. There are large open wood fires for heat and electric radiators upstairs. The refitted bathroom is in an outside wing with a roll top bath on splendid feet, and a secondary hip bath for the adventurous. The water is heated by electric immersion. Free wood and mains electricity. No TV reception, no washing machine, no freezer.
The house is thatched. In the floor is set a worn millstone; there are two fireplaces, a bread oven, a winding stair to a high trussed romantic roof. The bathroom, in an extension alongside, has an arched door and medieval windows reused from an older house. Outside, there are stone walls, a granite barn, spring and shallow streams for children to play in.
The adjoining barn has been rebuilt as a wood store on the ground floor and for play, contemplation or camping on the first floor with good lighting and shutters.
History
Mellinzeath was once the farmhouse of the miller in this wooded valley which has a thousand years of recorded history. Thought to have been rebuilt after a fire in 1665, it has been little altered since – a really forgotten although renovated house. It retains its original size, thick granite walls and many features.
Surrounding Area
We think the valley is quite extraordinarily lovely, with a tiny meadow, streams of fast rushing water, total seclusion and privacy, shelter from the wind, facing south with meadow, hillside and fifteen acres of woodland to explore.
You can walk round the hillsides – and also to a good pub. This is perhaps our most popular house, but you need a spirit of adventure. Although many visitors never leave the house, garden, water and woods, Mellinzeath is in the prime Helford River area, close to every facility of Falmouth, the Helford Estuary and Lizard Peninsula.
Access
You are met in the village and led to the car park in the farmyard. You and your luggage are both delivered and picked up from the house, other times it’s a 660 metre walk from your car. It is for the more adventurous, with fewer facilities than most, but loved by children, young couples, honeymooners, grandparents and those seeking quiet. Bring Wellies. Ideal for dogs.
“Calm, quiet misty mornings. Back to basics. We had many a nice walk and the locals are friendly.”
“Have enjoyed every minute spent here, the silence only interrupted by mooing!”
“It has been a real pleasure to stay in such a beautiful setting.”
“A very pretty, peaceful location for our honeymoon.”
“The cottage and location were just as I imagined – a fairy tale dream.”
“We wanted seclusion and this location certainly gave us that and more. With 2 dogs the woods have been ideal with no fear of them coming to any harm”
“Beautifully restored cottage and a fireplace that takes 6 foot logs (has now been burning continuously for 6 ½ days)”
“Why Mellinzeath you ask?…to return to the roots and get back to basis … what a stay… calm, quiet misty mornings, stoking fires and tasty dinners – what more could you ask for.”
“A wonderful little house every bit as beautiful as the brochure suggested. We tried out the hip bath. The beds were wonderfully warm and cosy…”
We thoroughly enjoyed our week at Mellinzeath, very special, and the first time I have been somewhere where you need no imagination at all!
Unfortunately we wont be sharing the details of this house on Facebook or any other social media, since as far as we are concerned the fewer people who know about this place the better for those who do know about it…….
We will be back hopefully as soon as we can find some time away again.
Allen and Kate