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Garden Name: Pencarrow
Last Modified: 14/01/2010
Garden ID: 0002

pic: 0002_pencarrow.jpg

Owner: Jo Goode
Address:
Washaway
Bodmin

Postcode: PL30 3AG
County: Cornwall

tel: 01208-841369
fax: 01208 841 722
website: www.pencarrow.co.uk
email: info {at} pencarrow.co.uk

Features: 
Rare collection of cedars and conifers. Mile long carriage drive, 50 acres of gardens, lakeside walks and extensive Victorian rockery.
Winner of Dog Trust "Attraction of the Year" in 2004.
House has fine collection of pictures, furniture, porcelain and antique dolls.

English Heritage Grade:
II*

Opening Times:
Snowdrop Sunday; 7th Feb.
Bluebell Sunday: 2nd May
1st Mar - 31st Oct; Daily; 9.30am - 5.30pm

Best Times of Year to Visit: 
March to the end of June

To see: 
Rhododendron (570 species)
Camellias, Azaleas.

National Collection: 


National Garden Scheme days: Yes
Comments: 19th April

Parties / Coaches: yes 
Comments: 

Viewing by Appointment: Yes
Comments:  

House Open for Viewing: Yes
Comments: 28th Mar - 30th Sept
Sunday to Thursday inclusive
11.am - 3pm (please check time of last tour)

Admission Prices:
Adult £4; Child £1; Over 60s £3; Single season ticket £15, Couples season ticket £29
Group discounts available.
House (incl. guided tour) & gardens. Adult £8.50; Child (5 -16) £4; Family tickets £22

Parking: Yes
Lavatories: Yes
Disabled Access: Yes
Shop: Yes
Plants for Sale: Yes
Lunches: Yes
Teas: Yes
Refreshments: Yes
Picnics: Yes
Dogs allowed: Yes
Only on Lead: No
Events: Yes

Other Facilities:
Shop and Restaurant.
Childrens play area.
Many Special Event days throughout year - see own website for details


Designer: Sir William Molesworth Bt.
Description of Garden:
These gardens are rightly famous for their collection of conifers, numbering over 160 different species and the extraordinary collection of more than 570 different species and hybrids of rhododendron. There are also over 60 different camellias. Many of the specimens in these collections are too tender to grow anywhere in Britain, except in the West Country. Two fine specimens of Chilean podocarps, one extremely rare, are to be found near the lake and the very rare Taxodium distichum 'Nutans', the Pond Cyprus, and the largest Deodar Cedar in the country, in the Italian Gardens and East Lawn respectively.


History: 
The house, an impressive Palladian mansion, dates from 1760, but the gardens at Pencarrow were designed and laid out by the radical statesman, Sir William Molesworth, from 1831 during intervals in his parliamentary sessions, until his early death in 1855. He created the Italian Garden, rockery, the lake, the Carriage Drive and began the collection of conifers, claiming at his death that he had planted a specimen of all but ten of the species that could survive in these Isles. Charles Austin, a guest of his, named the araucaria araucana, by saying "That would puzzle a monkey!" Molesworth's family and descendants, particularly the late 15th Baronet, Lt-Col. Sir Arscott Molesworth-St. Aubyn, have continued the planting and re-planting and extended the collection.

Local Inns: 
St Maybn Inn
Sladesbridge Country Inn
Earl of St. Vincent, Egloshayle

Accomodation: 
Tredethy Hotel
Mount Pleasant, 7 miles from Bodmin

Restaurants: 


Village/Town/Sightseeing: 
St Maybn
Sladesbridge
Helland Bridge