Cornwall's New Wave

NEWS VOICES TV IQ BUSINESS SPORT WEDNESDAY 36 2-35 16-20 26-31 36-41 42-45 48-55 i 10 FEBRUARY 2021 37 interior of earthy tones, kilim rugs The Pink Cottage Zennor and rattan furniture beside the With modern style behind its Grade fire. The kitchen is decorated in II-listed granite walls, this cosy smart grey and sliding doors lead bolthole – with its rose-tinted gate, to a multilevel garden. As well as a door and Aga – is surrounded by the family bathroom, there’s an outdoor rugged, boulder-strewn landscape of shower for sandy dogs and feet. Zennor, just four miles from St Ives. Sleeping four, it costs from £1,250 per Inside, it’s full of nooks for books and week, uniquehomestays.com logs for the burner, with handwoven cushions, original doors and rustic Killas Cottage Fowey wooden tables. There’s a lovely garden, Named after the local stone it’s built sleek bathroom with living plants, and from, Killas Cottage is tucked down two bedrooms including a twin room. a narrow, traffic-free passage in Sleeping four, it costs from £595 for Fowey, an easy stroll from the town three nights, kiphideaways.com centre and harbour. Inside, its three bedrooms blend fresh white walls Wenmouth Cottage Looe with character stonework and wood Suited to couples and small beams. There’s a nod to the nautical families – plus up to two dogs – this with porthole windows and splashes 17th-century cottage is within of blue, plus a sunny terrace and a walking distance of Looe harbour, Three Mile Beach Gwithian The new family barbecue. Sleeping four, it costs from plus shops, pubs, restaurants Opening in May, these 15 colourful friendly lodge £578 per week, originalcottages.co.uk and the beach. Stone walls, wood beach houses – created by Audley at Inner Visions beams and steep stairs add to the Travel founder Craig Burkinshaw (above) has a traditional feel, and children will and his partner Joanne Le Bon contemporary feel love the large oak window seat in the – are scattered among the sand and is tucked behind bunk bedroom. The kitchen has an dunes behind Gwithian Beach. Upton Towans Cornwall’s electric oven and hob, plus a washing Each of the three- and four- Nature Reserve, machine, while the private courtyard bedroom cabins features open- a short walk from is just the spot for a sundowner. plan kitchen-lounge-diners, log Gwithian Beach; Sleeping four, it costs from £500 burners and wrap-around terraces the one-bedroom per week, holidaycottages.co.uk with sunken cedar hot tubs, barrel terraced cottage saunas and barbecues. Wetsuits (left) at Springtide, new wave and surfboards can be hired and Marazion is ideal for delivered straight to your door, a romantic retreat Dreaming of a beach break? There are several openings to look forward Surfboards and surf lessons can be arranged can be hired and with the nearby surf school. A three-bedroom cottage, sleeping to, from a landmark hotel to coastal hideaways, writes Ellie Ross delivered straight seven, costs from £1,200 per week, to your door threemilebeach.co.uk Inner Visions near Gwithian air-source heat pumps. Sleeping and many original features remain, Tucked behind Upton Towans Nature four, it costs from £1,099 per week, including bars on the windows. The Reserve, a short walk from Gwithian luxurycoastal.co.uk moor, Fowey and Padstow are within Beach, this new, family friendly a 30-minutes drive. Doubles from £130 lodge has a contemporary feel, Bodmin Jail Hotel Bodmin b&b, bodminjailhotel.com with whitewashed walls, open-plan Following a £50m renovation, the living areas, vibrant pot plants and 18th-century Bodmin Jail has been Gwel Trelsa Polzeath wall-mounted surfboards. There’s a transformed into a boutique hotel, Directly overlooking Polzeath’s sand family bathroom and two bedrooms opening soon. During its 160-year and surf, this five-bedroom beach – including a twin room – with access history, the prison crammed in pad offers a front-row seat for sea to a private terrace. Built with its 35,000 inmates. After its makeover views and sunsets. The best place to environment in mind, it’s made it will cater for 176 guests. Each of enjoy it from is the cushion-filled from sustainable, locally sourced the 70 bedrooms has been created by “sky hammock”, with the log burner materials including bee bricks, with knocking through three former cells, crackling in the plush lounge below. There’s ample space for 10 guests Houses are and two dogs, plus underground scattered parking and every luxury imaginable among the – underfloor heating, super-king beds, Arts sand dunes a cocktail bar and kitchen with all mod Adam Curtis at Three Mile cons. Sleeping 10, it costs from £1,840 The ‘Radiohead of Beach (main) per week, latitude50.co.uk film-makers’ on his new in Gwithian; documentary series the bohemian Log Jam Menherion Page 38 stone Umber For an off-grid escape in nature, Cottage in St consider this cabin in the woods. dogs are welcome. Sleeping six, it Agnes (right); Featuring wood-panelled walls, costs from £1,059 per week, Killas Cottage a hot shower and living area with cornishgems.com (right, top) is a log fire and leather sofa, it runs tucked down on sustainable energy. A hidden Springtide Marazion a narrow door swings back to reveal the With its hot tub, log burner and passage in king-size bed. Wheelbarrow your cosy living room, this one-bedroom Fowey, an easy bags down the solar-lit track and terraced cottage in Marazion is ideal stroll from pick vegetables from the garden. for a romantic retreat. The hand- the harbour; Cook up a feast on the induction built kitchen features a breakfast Log Jam (right, hob, or on the Dutch oven over an bar and flagstone floors and there’s bottom) in open fire outside. Sleeping two, a courtyard with a bistro table and Reviews Menherion it costs from £120 per night, chairs. Located near the town’s Film offers an canopyandstars.co.uk galleries, cafés and sandy beaches, Tom Hanks is back in the off-grid escape it’s a good base for exploring the tidal saddle for the western in nature Trevanion Cottage, Coverack island of St Michael’s Mount and this ‘News of the World’ Perfectly positioned to explore West stretch of the South West Coast Path. Page 41 Cornwall and the Lizard peninsula, Sleeping two, it costs from £483 per this charming three-bedroom cottage week, classic.co.uk in the fishing village of Coverack Stay at home has been recently refurbished with Umber Cottage, St Agnes See gov.uk/ elegant interiors, open-plan living In the north Cornish village of St guidance/national- spaces and a handy wet room on the Agnes, this stonewall cottage offers lockdown-stay-at- ground floor. Drink in mesmerising luxury self-catering accommodation home for current sea views from the window seats, close to Trevaunance Cove and the advice dine al fresco in the private courtyard dramatic cliff-top ruins of Wheal or throw another log on the fire. Two Coates tin mine. Expect a bohemian .

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