in association with Trerithick Manor Polyphant | Launceston | Cornwall GUIDE £1,750,000 Trerithick Manor, Polyphant, Launceston, Cornwall, PL15 7PX A very fine Grade II* Listed Manor with a range of listed stone barns, further outbuildings, 4 acres of gardens and 52 acres of land with south facing pasture, river frontage and views towards Bodmin Moor. No forward chain. • An elegant and substantial Grade II* Listed Manor House. • Seven bedrooms including the East Wing annexe. • A wealth of rare and historic features throughout. • Ideal for entertaining and family or multi-generational living. • Excellent7 bed range4 bath of3 recp outbuildings 8.6 acr Double including garage with five superb listed stone room above barns. • Well-maintained gardens with croquet lawn, garden room and tennis court. • Southern fields bordering Penpont Water with fishing rights. • 56 acres of grounds in all, including permanent pasture. • Secluded and rural position yet easily accessible to road networks. • Beautiful views to the south and Bodmin Moor. • Roaring fires, croquet and tennis… This important landmark home dates back to around 1350. O riginally a three-roomed Medieval Hall House, consisting of kitchen, central passageway, great hall and parlour, it has been much added to and extended over the centuries. S teeped in history, it has many unique features including impressive fireplaces, 18th Century panelling, original shutters, a cloam oven, a medieval bread oven and wig cupboard. In recent years our client has improved the property further, installing a brand new water treatment plant, fire detection and electrical work and a refitted main bathroom and spacious under stairs storage . Ground source heat pumps generate warmth and hot water. Externally, at the front there is an unusual semi-circular pond thought to be for watering horses. Adjoining the house on the west side of the cobbled central courtyard is a 17th Century stone shippon barn. Extensive gardens surround the house and extend to t he east of the main driveway. Fifty-two acres of pasture extend to the north and south leading down to Penpont Water, a major tributary of the River Inny. The property now offers extensive and flexible accommodation in a delightful and secluded location with no near neighbours. It would suit a wide range of buyers including those seeking family or multi- generational occupation or those wishing to convert and enjoy the many barns and outbuildings, which offer exciting potential. INTERIOR The bedrooms al l enjoy a pleasant outlook The main house either over the gardens or across the courtyard A welcoming entrance porch opens into the and through the trees towards Bodmin Moor. central hallway and directly through to the courtyard with shippon barn beyond. On the The East Wing left of the hallway is the old kitchen, now used Known officially as Trerithick Cottage and as a sitting room, with wood burning stove in an registered as a property in its own right, the impressive fireplace and large window opening East Wing is linked to the main property at both onto the courtyard. Utility room and WC are ground and first floors as well as having its own adjoining as is access to the East Wing. To the separate access. It can be integrated or self- right of the hallway is the old great hall, now a contained, and has been let in the past. dining room, leading through to the original parlour, now the drawing room. Both rooms The East Wing front door opens into a have imposing granite fireplaces, panelling and reception area with a huge fireplace. To the shutters. right a doorway connects to the main house, to the left is a good-sized kitchen/dining room. This To the rear of the old hall is a spacious and light leads through to the East Wing sitting room, a filled hallway with a broad 18th Century high ceilinged room with triple aspe ct, an staircase winding to the first floor landings. impressive fireplace and cloam oven, a Under the stairs is a useful boarded out storage mullioned window to the east and a staircase to area. On the south side of the hallway, sheltered the first floor. Upstairs there are two very large within the central courtyard, is a fairly recent bedrooms, both with double aspect, and a addition, a fully glazed s unroom. To the north is bathroom. the charming panelled small parlour, leading through to the kitchen. This good-sized room The Shippon Barn has a triple aspect with two part-glazed doors Adjacent to the house and forming one side of opening onto the central courtyard. There is a the central courtyard is the Moor View Shippon range of units and an Everhot stove with Barn. Planning permission for development into induction plate. Originally a cider-cellar, the further accommodation was granted in the past kitchen has an unusual slate flagstone floor with and has since lapsed (Cornwall County Council: granite fluid channels. PA15/02881), offering an ideal opportunity for resubmission and conversion. Upstairs, the main staircase leads to three large bedrooms and a bathroom. Bedroom one has GROUNDS an easterly aspect offering morning sunlight. Externally, Trerithick Manor has a central Be droom two (thought to have been used as a courtyard and extensive, well-maintained courtroom) and the adjacent dressing room grounds. The central courtyard is sheltered and have a southerly aspect and large windows with sunny with a secluded feel. Enclosed on all sides, views towards Bodmin Moor. Through it is walled to the south, with the main house to bedroom three, which has a high ceiling and was the north and east and the undeveloped shippon originally the upper part of the great hal l, is a barn to the west. Four acres of gardens are door leading to two more intimate bedrooms divided west and east of the main driveway. The and a pretty bathroom. These rooms can also west garden surrounds the house to the front, be accessed directly via a most attractive 16th rear and west side of the property with an century staircase from the old kitchen, offering extensive lawned area to the we st of the house. the possibility to section the house into three. The east garden includes a croquet lawn, small arboretum, and tennis court. It also has a garden with fishing rights. Dramatic viewpoints are on room and a greenhouse in need of some offer over the valley towards Bodmin Moor. attention. To the north of the barns is a small orchard. LOCATION The property is in the Parish and within a couple There are three entrances to the property fro m of miles from A ltarnun, one of the most the road. The main entrance to the front of the attractive villages in north Cornwall. The village house divides the east and west gardens. The church of St. Nonna is known as the "Cathedral upper driveway provides a pleasant tree-lined on the Moors". The church tower is one of the approach to the farmyard and medieval barns tallest in the county and the attractive and then joins the main entrance. A further watercourse of Penpont Water trickles past. entrance provides access to the shippon barn Village facilities in Altarnun include a Post Office and front parking area. The property offers a and general store, county primary school, Parish great deal of outdoor and under cover parking Church and at five lanes the King's Head public space for vehicles of all sizes, with a garage, a house has an excellent local reputation for bar boat store, a tractor barn and large areas of food. The village hall has plenty of clubs and hard standing. associatio ns including an active indoor bowls club, local amateur dramatic society, local The outbuildings are extensive. A most history group, and for the younger generation a attractive courtyard of listed stone barns with youth group and brownies. For those with slate roofs comprises two-storey long barn, outdoor interests, the rugged terrain of Bodmin threshing barn and book barn, and a large single Moor can be reached easily offering mi les and storey workshop. There is immense potential miles of open terrain, a real haven for dog here for imaginative development subject to the walkers, climbers, hikers and horse riders. usual consents. The A30 dual carriageway which is positioned In addition there are several more modern within two miles from the property runs to agricultural buildings including a stable block, a Truro and West Cornwall in one direction and large tractor shed and a separate and very large Exeter and beyond in the o pposite direction. sheep barn with earth floor that could offer Regarded as the 'Gateway to Cornwall' the potential for equestrian purposes. market town of Launceston has a range of educational, recreational, commercial and The land extends to the north and south of the leisure facilities, as well as a Norman castle and house. Fields are separated by tree-lined banks attractive town centre. For further along historic field boundaries. On the northern communications the Cath edral City of Exeter is side, about 14 acres are divided into several approximately 47 miles distance, or about an fields. To the south, around 33 acres of hour’s drive and has a more extensive range of permanent pasture, unploughed for over 50 shopping and leisure facilities, as well as access years, slopes gently down to meadowland to the M5 motorway, mainland rail network to alongside Penpont Water, a tributary of the London (Paddington) and further north. Exet er River Inny with the confluence at nearby Two is served by an excellent regional international Bridges. There are small areas of deciduous airport.