Category: Amazing houses

Mathern Palace

Mathern Palace is positioned
Mathern Palace is positioned at the end of the village and was the former residence of the Bishops of Llandraff until it was restored by the historian and famous Garden designer H Avrey Tipping. The house today has D1 use but could easily be reverted to a private residential dwellling. The accomodation is full of historical features and is well proportioned with a number of impressive recpetion rooms and extensive bedrooom accomodation.

The gardens at Mathern Palace are incredibly romantic and lie to the south and west. The property beneifts from two cottages (one rquires finishing). Beyond the gardens is a large paddock.

What’s D1 use? D1 Non-residential institutions – Clinics, health centres, crèches, day nurseries, day centres, schools, art galleries (other than for sale or hire), museums, libraries, halls, places of worship, church halls, law court. Non residential education and training centres.

Lovely house Grade II listed

A historically important, GradeA historically important, Grade II listed, Victorian house sitting in its elevated 7.5 acres of grounds overlooking a beautiful valley with woodland, streams and ponds.

Kitchen, scullery & larder, dining room
Sitting room, snooker room, snug, orangery
7 bedrooms, 2 family bathrooms, 4 cloakrooms
Two-storey, aisled conservatory designed by Silvanus Trevail
Outbuildings include pool house (with heated pool), large barn with attached garaging and stores, workshop, Georgian greenhouse, ‘roundhouse’ garden shed and stables
7.5 acres of grounds including a walled garden, and paddock
Stunning views over the gardens and grounds to the valley beyond.
Optional 12 acre lot including large ponds, streams and paddocks

Fab staircase. Had to show you the photo of it!
A30 – 0.9 miles, Truro 13 miles, Exeter 97 miles

Hamlet for sale

A total of 15
A total of 15 holiday cottages, office, Inn, swimming pool and tennis court set within about 14 acres. Also, about 1 km away, a 4 bed farmhouse and barns with PP set in about 2 acres.

The 15 Cornish cottages, tennis court, swimming pool, estate office and the Inn are all set in about 14 acres. There is planning permission to convert the reception building into a 4 bedroom house. All the cottages have full residential use. The break down is: a) 4 adjoining cottages consisting of Anne’s Cottage, Farthing’s Cottage, Bramble Cottage and Trelinda Cottage. b) 3 adjoining cottage consisting of Old Farm House, Honey Cottage, and Joffer’s Cottage. c) 2 adjoining cottages consisting of Trefanny Hall and Little Trefanny Cottage. d) 2 adjoining cottages consisting of Cobbler’s Cottage and Summer Cottage. e) 2 adjoining cottages consisting of Valentine Cottage and Little Orchard Cottage. f) 2 adjoining cottages consisting of Todd’s Cottage and Hillford Cottage.
Further up the valley is Lot 2 – a 4 bedroom farmhouse and 3 original barns with planning permission to convert into domestic dwellings, set in about 1.8 acres.

How lovely would this be? Buy it and move all your friends and family in!

Near Crackington Haven

High quality 3 bedHigh quality 3 bed residential barn conversion with countryside and sea views with planning to extend.
3 bed residential barn conversion. 2 Further Cottages. 3 bed residential cottage available by seperate negotiation.
Guest barn with kitchen, luxury showers, games room, laundry room and BBQ area.
5 yurts with panoramic countryside and sea views.
Planning permission to covert Dutch Barn into an additional holiday cottage.
Set in 18.9 acres of organic pasture and paddocks
leading down to stream.

Recently a friend asked where was a good place to stay in Cornwall. Within moments two of us had said Crackington Haven. It has a lovely beach and is a wonderfully pretty place to stay. St Gennys is right next door to Crackington Haven. It’d be a beautiful place to live.

Greenwood Grange – part of the Hardy story

17 self catering cottages
Greenwood Grange is an impressive holiday complex. It has some very interesting history.

17 self catering cottages
Indoor swimming pool with sauna
Games room, 2 tennis courts
Established & successful business
Approx. 7.2 acres

Greenwood Grange is an impressive conversion of a range of farm buildings, constructed by Thomas Hardy’s father in 1849. The brick, stone and slate barns have been rebuilt, extended and refurbished over the
years and today provide luxury holiday accommodation. Thomas Hardy was born in Higher Bockhampton which later became the model for Upper Mellstock in his novels. Hardy’s Cottage is now maintained by
the National Trust only a few hundred yards from the holiday cottage complex. His famous poem ‘The Oxen’ refers to one of the farm buildings at Greenwood Grange.

Treworra Barton

A successful well-established holiday
Treworra Barton is A successful well-established holiday cottage complex in a beautiful rural setting. Five bedroom Listed farmhouse, five holiday cottages, land and outbuildings. Readily accessible to Bodmin Moor and the north Cornwall coast. In all about 17.2 acres.

Could have MaryFest here!