Cotehele
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 Courtyard of the house | |
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Cotehele is a grand Tudor manor house with extensive landscaoped gardens running down to the River Tamar at the eastern edge of Cornwall, within the Parish of Calstock. It is now in the care of the National Trust.
The style of the house is a mixture of mediæval and Tudor and its probable origin is around 1300. The main phases of building appear to have been by Sir Richard Edgcumbe from 1485–89 and his son, Sir Piers Edgcumbe, from 1489-1520.[1]
This house is one of the least altered of the Tudor houses in the United Kingdom. The outbuildings include a stone dovecote in a remarkable state of preservation.[2] For centuries a home of the Edgcumbe family, the house and estate came into the hands of the National Trust in the twentieth century. The grounds stretch down to a quay on the River Tamar and Cotehele Quay, maintained as a museum to the days of trade. Morwellham Quay is a little upriver on the Devon side..
The gardens and parkland are listed as Grade II* on the Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England[3]
Film location
- Twelfth Night the film adaptation by Trevor Nunn of 1996 was partly filmed at Cotehele (it provided the quayside tavern and the interior of Orsino's castle).[4]
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References
- ↑ Images of England — details from listed building database (60778) Cotehele
- ↑ Pevsner, N. (1970) Cornwall, 2nd ed. Penguin
- ↑ Parks & Gardens Data Services - Cotehele
- ↑ Twelfth Night - British Film Locations