Pencarrow

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Pencarrow House from the south

Pencarrow is newly built Georgian style manor house in the county of Cornwall in the UK. The * classified as a cultural monument is a fine Grade II manor house is surrounded by a 20 hectare park, five kilometers southeast of Wadebridge and five kilometers northeast of Bodmin. The manor house is still inhabited by the family Molesworth -St Aubyn, but eleven rooms of the house and the park can be visited.

History

Pencarrow is for nearly 500 years the seat of the family Molesworth -St Aubyn, since John Molesworth entered the service of the Duchy of Cornwall in the 16th century. The 5th Baron Molesworth, Sir John Molesworth, was co-founder of the banking house Molesworth & Company, which was merged in the bank Lloyds. The present mansion was built to replace an older system from 1765 to 1771 by the architect Robert Allanson for the 5th Baron Molesworth.

Plant

The two-story mansion consists of a group of buildings, the courtyard and garden front have a uniformly designed classical facade. The inside is richly decorated with paintings, furniture, moldings and other furnishings from the late 18th century. The farm buildings many dating back to the 17th century.

Park

The surrounding the manor house landscape park was designed mainly 1831-1835 by the 10th Baron William Molesworth. He lay south of the house to a sunken garden in the style of the Italian Renaissance. In the adjacent park a tour leads to a rock garden, a lake with stream and a south continuous, wide valley flanked by forests with willows. Sir William Molesworth was a great plant collector, who planted many conifers in the park. Today, the park contains over 700 rhododendron, 160 different conifer species and 60 different species of Camellia. The entrance to the mansion is operated via a 1.5 km long road through the park.

Trivia

The English composer Arthur Sullivan composed in 1886, when he was a guest of Lady Andalusia Molesworth in Pencarrow, his opera Lolanthe. The piano on which he rehearsed his compositions, still stands in the drawing room.

Pencarrow served several times as a film set, including for Rosamunde Pilcher films cliffs of Love (1999 ) English Wine (2011) and A Question of Honor (2012 ).

The Chilean Araucaria got its English name Monkey Puzzle Tree in the Park at Pencarrow, when the English lawyer Charles Austin in 1834 remarked upon seeing the tree in the park: "That tree would puzzle a monkey" ( in German as: " to climb this tree is itself for a monkey an almost impossible task ").