CURRENTLY for sale through Savills, two timeless mixed farming and residential estates in scenic and much sought-after areas of the South-West are already attracting interest from prospective purchasers in all sectors of the property world-from private and institutional investors to farmers, landowners, lifestyle buyers, conservationists and even would-be rewilders.
Today sees the launch in COUNTRY LIFE of the spectacular, 1,199-acre Trevalga estate on the north Cornwall coast between Boscastle and Tintagel, an area forever associated with the legend of King Arthur. The sale is being handled on behalf of the trustees of the late Gerald Curgenven, last Lord of the Manor of Trevalga, by Penny Dart of Savills in Exeter (01392 455700) and Alex Lawson in London (020-7016 3715), who quote a guide price of $15.75 million for the property as a whole.
The ancient Manor of Trevalga was given by William the Conqueror to Robert, Earl of Morton when he made him Earl of Cornwall in the 11th century. From the early 13th century until 1601, the manor was held by the Bassetts, before eventually passing to the Stephens family. In 1889, the Trevalga estate was placed in a trust for the Stephens family and continued in their ownership until 1933, when Mrs E. G. Stephens died, with no beneficiary to inherit.
In September 1934, the trustees sold the manor, comprising 12 houses, seven farms and some 845 acres of land to Gerald Curgenven, who subsequently acquired nearby Trehane Farm, Cardew Farm and Treweens Farm, thereby increasing the size of the estate to just short of 1,200 acres. Since Mr Curgenven's death in 1959, the estate has been managed by his trustees, who have authorised the sale in the hope that the estate will be bought as a whole by another committed long-term owner who will appreciate its unique appeal.
Esta historia es de la edición August 10, 2022 de Country Life UK.
Comience su prueba gratuita de Magzter GOLD de 7 días para acceder a miles de historias premium seleccionadas y a más de 9,000 revistas y periódicos.
Ya eres suscriptor ? Conectar
Esta historia es de la edición August 10, 2022 de Country Life UK.
Comience su prueba gratuita de Magzter GOLD de 7 días para acceder a miles de historias premium seleccionadas y a más de 9,000 revistas y periódicos.
Ya eres suscriptor? Conectar
Save our family farms
IT Tremains to be seen whether the Government will listen to the more than 20,000 farming people who thronged Whitehall in central London on November 19 to protest against changes to inheritance tax that could destroy countless family farms, but the impact of the good-hearted, sombre crowds was immediate and positive.
A very good dog
THE Spanish Pointer (1766–68) by Stubbs, a landmark painting in that it is the artist’s first depiction of a dog, has only been exhibited once in the 250 years since it was painted.
The great astral sneeze
Aurora Borealis, linked to celestial reindeer, firefoxes and assassinations, is one of Nature's most mesmerising, if fickle displays and has made headlines this year. Harry Pearson finds out why
'What a good boy am I'
We think of them as the stuff of childhood, but nursery rhymes such as Little Jack Horner tell tales of decidedly adult carryings-on, discovers Ian Morton
Forever a chorister
The music-and way of living-of the cabaret performer Kit Hesketh-Harvey was rooted in his upbringing as a cathedral chorister, as his sister, Sarah Sands, discovered after his death
Best of British
In this collection of short (5,000-6,000-word) pen portraits, writes the author, 'I wanted to present a number of \"Great British Commanders\" as individuals; not because I am a devotee of the \"great man, or woman, school of history\", but simply because the task is interesting.' It is, and so are Michael Clarke's choices.
Old habits die hard
Once an antique dealer, always an antique dealer, even well into retirement age, as a crop of interesting sales past and future proves
It takes the biscuit
Biscuit tins, with their whimsical shapes and delightful motifs, spark nostalgic memories of grandmother's sweet tea, but they are a remarkably recent invention. Matthew Dennison pays tribute to the ingenious Victorians who devised them
It's always darkest before the dawn
After witnessing a particularly lacklustre and insipid dawn on a leaden November day, John Lewis-Stempel takes solace in the fleeting appearance of a rare black fox and a kestrel in hot pursuit of a pipistrelle bat
Tarrying in the mulberry shade
On a visit to the Gainsborough Museum in Sudbury, Suffolk, in August, I lost my husband for half an hour and began to get nervous. Fortunately, an attendant had spotted him vanishing under the cloak of the old mulberry tree in the garden.
