Seven-bed Italian manor home in the Cornish countryside goes on the market for nearly £2m 

A grand home that offers a slice of Italian life in the Cornish countryside has gone on the market for £1.195m.

The Italian Pavilion is part of a Grade II Listed Neo-Palladian manor house.

The seven bedroom home is part of Tehidy Park, a 42-acre estate near Camborne that was redeveloped into 52 homes about 25 years ago.

Estate agents Lillicrap Chilcott said the sale was an opportunity ‘quite unlike any other house for sale currently in Cornwall and perhaps in the south west of England’.

Tehidy Park dates back more than 700 years and spent most of that time as the home of the Basset family, a well known land owning and tin mining family that are referred to in the BBC’s Poldark series.

The earliest property was torn down by Cornish rebels in the late 15th century and the existing mansion was built in 1734.

The Basset family left in 1915 and sold Tehidy Park in 1916. The bulk was bought by a London syndicate who offered the mansion and its land for use as a hospital and it remained in use as a hospital until it was sold for redevelopment in the 1990s.

The Italian Pavilion has five double bedrooms and there is also a self-contained annexe with another two double bedrooms.

The impressive main bedroom was the former billiards room of the original manor house and has a barrelled ceiling, pyramid skylight and an ornately painted mural.

The pavilion has more than 4,000 square feet of accommodation with an entrance hall, kitchen/breakfast room, triple aspect main reception room, sitting room and two bedrooms with en suites on the ground floor and three more bedrooms on the first floor, one with en suite, and a family bathroom.

The annexe, which has its own pedestrian and vehicle entrance, has an open plan 34 feet long kitchen/dining/living room taking up the whole of the ground floor and two bedrooms each with their own bathroom upstairs.

Outside the property has a private 82 feet by 45 feet entertaining terrace overlooking the beautiful sunken Italianate garden, which is for use by all residents. 

It also has an extensive cellar and undercroft area.

The Italian Pavilion also has access to the shared 42 acres of parkland grounds and the estate is next to the Tehidy Park golf course and country club and Tehidy Woods, which has walking and cycling routes. 

The South West Coast Path is a 15-minute walk away through woodland.

Mark Bracey from Lillicrap Chilcott said: ‘We have sold many properties within the Tehidy Park estate over the 20-plus years we have been an agency.

‘There are some modern properties and some older ones, but the Italian Pavilion just has totally different proportions and dimensions to anything else there.

‘The main reception space is fantastic, with 20ft plus ceiling heights and these incredible floor to ceiling arched windows.

‘It’s quite dramatic and unlike any other property on the estate.

‘The house has a very stately feel. You get all the benefits of the aesthetics and stature of the building, but without the drawbacks of looking after a 42-acre estate.’