Polsue Manor Roseland Peninsula POLSUE MANOR RUANHIGHLANES, THE ROSELAND PENINSULA, NR. TRURO, SOUTH CORNWALL On the market as a private house for the first time since 1934. One of the Roseland Peninsula’s most impressive country houses providing grand yet manageably proportioned 6 bedroomed accommodation facing south over its own 7 acres of grounds to countryside beyond. A magnificent family home with an excellent 1 bedroomed annexe, modern triple garaging and outbuildings at the end of a long wooded driveway, privately and conveniently located between the excellent sailing facilities at St Mawes and all that Truro has to offer. SUMMARY OF ACCOMMODATION Ground Floor: reception hall, drawing room, sitting room, dining room, orangery, kitchen/breakfast room, rear hall, cloak room, study, laundry, games room, rear porch, cellar, various stores. First Floor: landings, principal bedroom with dressing room and en-suite bath/shower room, 3 further en-suite double bedrooms, 2 further double bedrooms (6 in total), bathroom, various stores and linen rooms. Annexe: living room, kitchen/breakfast room. First Floor: landing, double bedroom en-suite. Outside: long driveway through woodland, triple garage, carport, period small coach house/ workshop, modern barn and various stores. Fabulous lawned gardens, meadow, further area of woodland with ponds, 2 paddocks. In all about 7 acres. Viewing strictly by appointment through the vendor’s Sole Agent: Lillicrap Chilcott . Landrian House . 59-60 Lemon Street . Truro . TR1 2PE Tel: 01872 273473 Fax: 01872 273474 Email: [email protected] www.waterfrontandcountryhomes.com DESCRIPTION Polsue Manor is a particularly rarefied style of house in Cornwall on the whole but more particularly on the lightly populated, exceedingly beautiful and protected Roseland Peninsula. The house is found between Ruanhighlanes and the picturesque village of Philleigh in the heart of glorious rolling countryside in which the house enjoys a southerly outlook, yet it is within walking distance along a footpath to Pendower Beach and is just a short drive from the surrounding coastal villages including the sailing haven of St Mawes. Polsue Manor is believed to have been built throughout the Georgian era and has a classic five window wide facade with a columned porch and hipped roof. Behind the formal frontage the house steps back in two further sections also under hipped roofs with a zinc roofed orangery on the south western side and an entrance into the integral one bedroomed annexe to the northern corner. The accommodation has a most pleasing flow with the drawing room, dining room and sitting room all set off a welcoming reception hall with a classic fireplace to one side and a staircase which rises and splits at half landing height in the grandest of fashions. Secret sliding doors open from the dining room to the orangery and behind the dining room is a sandstone floored kitchen/ breakfast room with an Everhot range cooker and light oak units under granite worktops. The high ceilings and enormous windows are carried on through this room into the rear of the house with a broad part sandstone floored service hall linking numerous rooms including a study, games room, utility room, cloak room and rear porch back to the main hall and here a staircase also descends to a large and very useable cellar. During recent times our clients have reorganised the principle bedroom suites to reduce the former nine bedroomed accommodation down to six much more impressive bedrooms, four of which are en-suite. The master bedrooms is of course the pinnacle enjoying the sole use of one side of the split staircase, three sash windows captivating the views, a splendid dressing room with fitted wardrobes and of course a superb en-suite bath/shower room all of which have LOCATION tremendous proportions and high ceilings. Doors link both the ground and Polsue Manor is approximately equidistant between Ruanhighlanes and From a sporting point of view, Polsue Manor is well placed, with many nearby first floors to the integral one bedroomed annexe which is really more of a Philleigh, in the midst of beautiful and unspoilt countryside, about 12 miles beaches such as Pendower and there are swinging moorings at Percuil and St self-contained cottage. from Truro and about 8 miles from the yachtsman’s haven of St Mawes beside Mawes which opens into the marvellous and safe waters of the Carrick Roads the Fal Estuary (Carrick Roads) which is at the mouth of the Percuil River. as well as being a perfect point to start a day’s sail to the Helford or Fowey In addition to the house there is a modern triple garage, carport, period small St Mawes has a range of excellent hotels with restaurants including the Idle Rivers. St Mawes Sailing Club is one of the best supported and active clubs in coach house/workshop and other outbuildings including a large modern barn Cornwall with regular twice weekly racing throughout the season, social events Rocks, Tresanton and the Rising Sun amongst others, a range of shops, doctors, secluded within woodland. The grounds are approached over a sweeping and cruises and a comprehensive children’s sailing school, with kayaking and dentists, other services and two sheltered beaches. long driveway through woodland dotted with specimens and there is a further windsurfing available at Percuil. There are various golf courses nearby, whilst woodland walk in the south west corner of the grounds following the path of The larger village of Tregony, which has shops catering for everyday needs, the north coast for surfing is only about half an hours’ drive away. Field sports a stream as it leads through ponds. Around the house are open lawns dotted together with highly regarded schooling facilities, is about 5 miles away, whilst are widely available with river, beach casting and sea fishing as well as driven with trees and planted beds as well as an ornamental pond and a perfectly the Cathedral City of Truro has superb private schooling, a good selection of and rough shooting for pheasant, partridge, duck and woodcock. flat area ideal for parties. Below the house is a meadow with mown pathways meandering through it and behind the house are two paddocks which have specialist shops and leisure facilities. Communications are good: Newquay Along the south coast are the quaint villages of Portholland and Portloe which an additional road access. All of this combines to make Polsue Manor one of Airport at St Mawgan is around half an hours’ drive away and has scheduled has a hotel and inn above its cove harbour. A little further to the south is the Roseland Peninsula’s, if not Cornwall’s, most important houses and it is the flights to London Gatwick amongst other destinations, and Truro has a main the larger combined villages of Portscatho and Gerrans where there is a range sort of house that we often find will not be available for sale again for one or line railway station – travelling time to London Paddington approximately of shops and a picturesque sandy harbour. Ruanlanihorne and Philleigh are more generations. 4½ hours. Exeter and the M5 motorway are about 1½ hours’ drive. nearby picture postcard countryside villages both with excellent inns. ORANGERY – 22’4” x 17’5”. Vaulted ceiling with painted timbers under a zinc roof, slate floor, three sets of half glazed double doors along one entire wall opening to a terrace and overlooking the garden, further run of windows along the entirety of another wall overlooking countryside, woodburning stove, serving hatch to the kitchen. STORE ROOM – 12’7” x 3’1”. KITCHEN / BREAKFAST ROOM – 25’7” x 15’6”. A superb family room with a sandstone flagged floor and huge multi pane sash window with panelled surround and shutters facing south west over a courtyard garden. Fitted with light oak fronted kitchen units under granite worktops including a large island and with a cut draining area leading to a stainless steel sink with chrome mixer tap over. Grey electric Everhot range cooker with additional module, a glass splashback and concealed AEG extractor over. Recessed space for a fridge and freezer or twin fridges, generous space for a breakfast table and further furniture, concealed integrated AEG dishwasher, serving hatch to the orangery. Panelled door to:- REAR HALL. Leading through the rear of the house with sandstone flooring towards the rear porch and carpeted flooring elsewhere. Second staircase rising to the first floor, two doors giving access back to the reception hall, plentiful space for storage and coats etc. Further doors to the annexe and:- CLOAK ROOM – 14’ x 8’. Slate flagged floor, tall multi pane window to the rear, period white sanitaryware, plentiful space for furniture or coats etc. STUDY – 14’ x 14’ max. Fitted cupboards and shelves, tall sash window to the rear with window seat below. THE ACCOMMODATION COMPRISES LAUNDRY – 16’3” reducing to 13’5” x 15’5”. A large multipurpose room (all floor plans and dimensions are approximate) with a vast amount of fitted shelving, space for appliances, slate flooring. A grand columned porch covers three broad granite steps rising to the Ornate marble fireplace with a marble hearth, slate slips and ornate cast iron Deep former fireplace with huge slate shelves, high level window. impressive half glazed front door with glazed surrounds opening to:- grate. Ceiling mouldings and high skirtings. A pair of internal panelled double doors open to:- GAMES ROOM – 20’6” x 14’2”. Huge multi pane sash window with a RECEPTION HALL – 28’6” x 15’8” (average). A gracious entrance into window seat below, open grate fireplace (not in use) with slate slips and painted the home under a 9’9” high ceiling, as found throughout the majority of the SITTING ROOM – 16’3” x 11’3”.