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The Fishstore Holiday Cottage Mousehole

Mousehole Harbour - Cornwal

Holiday lets run from Saturday to Saturday

‘The Fishstore’ cookery book Lindsey Bareham’s ‘The Fishstore’ cookery book was inspired by the house and surrounding area “Mousehole couldn't have been more different from the Cornwall I knew. This was a proper village centred round a pretty little harbour with fishing boats and seagulls. As we made our way along the narrow, twisting road, past the flower-decked, granite fishermen's cottages, and I absorbed the timeless sights and sounds of Mousehole for the first time, I had no inkling what an important part in my life this lovely, typical, small Cornish village was destined to play. I didn't realise it then, but the Fishstore was about to change my understanding of cooking seafood. I would learn how to prepare and cook a munificence of mackerel and monkfish, red mullet and soles, sea bass, squid and scallops and, most memorably, crab.” Extract taken from the cookery book, The Fishstore by Lindsey Bareham. Sample Recipe Crab claws with aïoli; serves 4 Serve the claws on a platter with the bowl of aïoli in the middle, a pile of crusty toast and a few lemon wedges to squeeze over. If the claws are raw, drop them into a big pan of generously salted boiling water. Boil for 10 minutes. Drain and cool before cracking. For the aïoli: 6 garlic cloves 300ml olive oil salt and pepper 2 large egg yolks 1 tsp smooth Dijon mustard 12 crab claws 3 lemons and extra lemon juice First make the aïoli. Ensure all ingredients are at room temperature. Peel and finely chop the garlic. Sprinkle with a little salt and use the flat of a knife to work the garlic to a smooth, juicy paste. Place the egg yolks, mustard and a generous seasoning of salt and pepper in a mixing bowl. Beat with a whisk until thick. Stir in the garlic paste and add the oil in a thin stream, beating continuously, adding a little lemon juice and then more oil until all is used up and the mayonnaise is thick and glossy. Crack the crab claws lightly without crushing the meat. Pile the claws on to a platter.

Self-catering Holiday Cottage in Mousehole

Sleeps 6 people

Mousehole - Penzance - Land's End
St. Michaels Mount

"Three big square windows look out to sea"

• Right in the heart of Mousehole.
• Beautiful sea views.
• Located just 3 miles from Mounts Bay.

You will not find another more impressive space like this in Mousehole. Originally the house was built as a pilchard factory. Three big square windows look out to sea from The Fishstore and they are all in the main living room.

Right in the heart of Mousehole, The Fishstore is an unusual place to stay. Originally built as a pilchard factory the converted house has been lovingly restored. There are three bedrooms off a large double height space, with wooden floor boards and exposed beams.

Mousehole is located just three miles westward around Mounts Bay from Penzance and is one of the most beautiful coastal villages in Britain, as famously regarded by the poet Dylan Thomas ‘The loveliest village in England’. It has remained largely unspoiled by the developments of the 20th Century.

The village, whose name is pronounced "Mowzel", is centred around a nearly circular harbour protected from the force of the sea coming across Mounts Bay by two sturdy breakwaters.

Today there still remain some fishing boats in the harbour which makes the view of the harbour peaceful and idyllic.

Just offshore outside the harbour is St Clement's Isle - a small rocky island where once an ancient hermit was said to live.

A few hundred yards along the coast from the village lies a huge cave which - so some people say - gives rise to the name of the village (Mouse Hole).

DIRECTIONS

From London by car: 300 miles and takes between 4.5 to 5 hours. M4, M5, A30 through Penzance, Newlyn and arrive in Mousehole.

From Bristol by car: 200 miles and takes about 3.5 hours. M5, A30 through Penzance, Newlyn and arrive in Mousehole.

LOCAL ATTRACTIONS

There are plenty of pubs and restaurants nearby.
Here are just a few to get you started:

The Old Coast Guard Lunch and Dinner.
Tel: 01736 731 222
Mousehole. Converted pub/restaurant/hotel with lovely sea views.

The Cornish Range
Tel: 01736 731 488
Mousehole. 2 AA Rosette restaurant.

The Abbey Restaurant
Tel: 01736 330 680
Penzance, Abbey St. Michelin star restaurant.

The Wink
Lunch Pub Lamorna.
Good to combine a walk and lunch.

The Old Success
Lunch Pub Sennen.
Good to combine a beach walk and lunch.

Gurnards Head
Lunch Pub Gurnards Head (see local map). Pub/restaurant/hotel good to combine a walk out to the coast and lunch. I recommend the fish stew and fresh sandwiches.

Walks

Most walks are along the coastal footpath.

Gurnards head.
Round trip 1 mile.
Park outside the Gurnards Head hotel and have lunch there.

Porthminster and Porthmeor beaches.
Park in St. Ives (difficult) or Carbis Bay. Round trip 1 mile. Sandy beaches with surfing.
Have a lovely lunch at the famous Porthminster Café.

Zennor head.
Round trip 2 miles.
Park in the Zennor car park. Have lunch at The Tinners Arms. Visit the chapel and the museum of local history in the village.

Porthcurno to Lands End.
Round trip 5 miles.
Park at Porthcurno (sandy beach) car Park. Have lunch at the Old Success at Sennen.

Galleries, Museums & places of cultural interest

The Newlyn Art Gallery.
(Exhibitions by contemporary Cornish artists).

Badcocks Gallery.
Newlyn. (Exhibitions by contemporary Cornish art and local craft).

The Tate in St Ives.
St Ives.
(Its full of little galleries).

Penlee House.
Telephone: 01736 363625.
Penzance.
(Historic art of West Cornwall, including 'Newlyn School' artists, such as Stanhope and Elizabeth Forbes, Walter Langley and 'Lamorna' Birch. For those interested it also has an impressive photographic archive of Cornwall from 1860s to 1960 (viewed on a computer).