TRERICE HOUSE & GARDENS
Magnificent Elizabethan Manor House, summer garden and Lawnmower Museum

Accommodation in the Local Area

Location; Trerice House Newquay, Cornwall TR8 4PG Tel: 01637 875404 Opening times: Please arrive in good time to ensure your tour can be completed. Open 28 February to 1 November 2009, daily except Fridays. House: 11am-5pm, last admission half an hour before closing. Garden and Tea Room open: 10.30am-5pm. Last orders for Tea Room at 4.30pm, lunches available 12 noon to 2pm. Admission Prices: House and garden Gift aid Standard Adult £7.00 £6.36 Child £3.50 £3.18 Family Ticket £17.50 £15.91 Family - one adult £10.50 £9.55 Pre-arranged parties (15+)   £5.90       Garden only     Adult £2.40 2.18 Child £1.20 £1.09 Family £6.00 £5.45 1 adult family £3.60 £3.27 Groups   £2.00 Reduced rate when arriving by public transport or bicycle.

Delightful, small secluded Elizabethan manor house, built in 1571. Contains fine fireplaces, ceilings, furniture and clocks. Summer garden with unusual plants, orchard. Shop in house and tea-room in barn. First class facilities for visitors with disabilities. There is now a Tudor vegetable garden behind the Barn, and various activities are available for children of all ages.

Trerice is a small Elizabethan manor house built of buff-coloured limestone. The house is set in a quiet valley, approached by a narrow, winding lane. .

The house was built in 1573 by Sir John Arundell , replacing a home that he inherited from his father. Sir John's father, also called Sir John, making his fortune in the service of his country; knighted after the battle of the Spurs, was Esquire of the Body to Henry VIII before going on to serve under King Edward VI and Queen Mary.

The Arundell family supported the Royalist cause during the English Civil War and some a degree of financial hardships as a consequence. At the Restoration of the Monarchy their fortunes revived.

The Arundells lived owned Trerice for over 400 years; the property passing to the Acland family of Killerton in Devon in 1802. The property was again placed on the market in 1915, changing hands several times before finally being acquired for the Nation by the National Trust in 1953.