| Forgotten Houses was set
up with enthusiasm for houses that were of
historic, architectural or scenic interest.
Nearly all the houses are listed, and the
details in the brochure and on the website
include full scaled floor plans for each
house.
The houses include smaller cottages like
the woodland stone cottage with a big fireplace
at Mellinzeath, a thatched cottage
in woods close to the Helford River. It lies
in what has been described as 'a quite lovely
and private valley'.
There are other astonishing listed buildings,
houses in wonderful settings and also a number
of truly splendid manors, that can take many
people.
It is important that Forgotten Houses should
remain small and give a direct personal service
from staff who have all visited and know each
of the houses. Most of the houses take dogs
and nearly all have fireplaces.
Examples include Lower Bosvarren,
one of a number of largish four bedroomed
houses. This is a listed Elizabethan farmhouse
up a tree lined drive ten minutes drive from
Falmouth and its beaches.
Grooms is a most unusual house on
a many thousand acre, private, 18th century
landscape in East Cornwall.
The three properties at Little Pinnock
provide luxurious modern accommodation
within the peaceful setting of a mediaeval
farming hamlet. Just north of Fowey and close
to beaches.
Tresillian, near Newquay, is truly
magnificent. This is a renovated Georgian
mansion of real luxury in large gardens for
two or three families and is one of a number
of large country houses.
Manorbier Castle in Pembroke, South
Wales is a house built of and within the battlements
of this great mediaeval castle.
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