The Trewarthenick Estate is a

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and estate located in the hamlet of

Trewarthenick Trewarthenick () is a hamlet in the civil parish of Tregony in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.Ordnance Survey ''One-inch Map of Great Britain; Truro and Falmouth, sheet 190''. 1961 Trewarthenick lies within the Cornwall Area of Outstanding N ...

near

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. The house was originally built in around 1686 and has seen considerable alterations over the years.

History

The Gregor family had owned land in Trewarthenick from 1640, and in about 1686 commissioned a country house. With grounds remodelled by

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in around 1792, it was then extended with flanking wings by Henry Harrison of London in 1831.

William Gregor William Gregor (25 December 1761 – 11 June 1817) was a British clergyman and mineralogist who discovered the elemental metal Titanium. Early years He was born at the Trewarthenick Estate in Cornwall, the son of Francis Gregor and Mary C ...

who discovered

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in 1790, and the MP

Francis Gregor Francis Gregor (1 June 1760 – 12 July 1815) was an English landowner in Cornwall, Member of Parliament for the Cornwall county constituency from 1790 to 1806. Life Gregor was born on 1 June 1760 in Trewarthenick, Cornwall, the son of Cpt ...

were both born and raised in the property. After post-

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renovation, the flanking wings were removed around 1950. In 2008, the property was bought for £9 million by businessman

Marcus Evans Marcus Paul Bruce Evans (born 18 August 1963) is an English businessman. He is originally from Walsham-le-Willows, near Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk, but grew up near Wimbledon, London. He founded his company, Marcus Evans, in 1983. The group or ...

, then consisting of an estate covering some 1737 acres, with a 2.5 miles frontage on the

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The house

Trewarthenick is a

, having been added to the listed buildings register on 28 November, 1975. The property has been considerably altered over the years and was originally larger than it is now. A date-stone inscribed "1686" was relocated from its original position when the house was remodelled in 1792. Flanking wings were added in 1831 and possibly rear wings as well, the flanking wings being demolished in about 1950. The front is constructed of finely coursed slate-stone while the other external walls are made of rubble stone or faced with brick. The roof is slated, the rear wings having gable ends. The roof is concealed by a parapet and moulded cornice. The central part of the house has two storeys and a part basement while the rear wings have three storeys. The east front is symmetrical with seven windows, the central three bays being advanced under a plain pediment. The central doorway has glazed double doors and a fanlight. The wooden sashes with twelve panes may date from 1831, but the central ones are probably from 1792. The north front has Tuscan columns and a date-stone with "1934" in the wall above. To the left are two small mullioned windows that have possibly been reused from an earlier version of the house. The interior has several original features including rooms with the original oak and pine panelling, various mouldings, a fine marble chimney-piece in mid-eighteenth century style and ceiling cornices of various periods.

References

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