Place House (Fowey)
Place House is a manor house in Cornwall . The building, classified as a Grade I cultural monument, is located in Fowey town center, immediately northwest of the parish church of St Fimbarrus .
history
The manor house has been the seat of the Treffry family since the 13th century , who became rich in the Middle Ages as merchants through the trade in tin, fish and wool, but also as privateers. John Treffry was knighted by Henry VII in 1485. During a French attack on Fowey in 1457, Elizabeth, the wife of the absent Thomas Treffry, was able to repel the attack on Place House and thus the looting and destruction of the building by pouring molten lead from the roof of the building onto the attackers.
The present mansion was built in the 16th century around a core from the 15th century. In 1791 the building was rebuilt. From 1817 to 1845 it was expanded in the neo-Gothic style by Joseph Thomas Treffry . It is still used privately and cannot be visited.
investment
The castle-like mansion is located on a hill in the middle of the city and is surrounded by a walled garden. The two-storey building is richly decorated in the neo-Gothic style with battlements, bay windows and towers. The south facade still has magnificent bay windows from the 16th century. On the west side there is a square, crenellated tower, which was built in place of an older tower in the 19th century.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ British Listed Buildings: Place House, Fowey. Retrieved July 15, 2014 .
- ^ Fowey to Mevagissey Passenger Ferry: The Fowey Gallants. Retrieved July 10, 2014 .
- ^ Historic Houses Association: Place. Retrieved July 16, 2014 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 20 '8.9 " N , 4 ° 38' 9.2" W.