Saltash, Cornwall Photos by Hetty
6th May 2022 www.nationaltrust.org.uk/cotehele
The house at Cotehele was built in the 1400 to 1500s, with little change since. We saw the great hall and rooms in the tower
We entered through the Gatehouse Tower to the courtyards
The property was set out as a house of antiquities in 1830.
The Great Hall
Some chairs date from the 1600s and a folding chair
There are many tapestries
On this door are Tudor marigolds
Kitchen
Kitchen rules on a board – a lot of them
There are three levels of terraces in front of this side of the house
There is a domed dovecote and a Victorian thatched summerhouse in the garden, which tumbles down the hillside. Lots of colour from the rhododendrons
At the bottom by the river is a chapel
Then we waked to the quay, where there were lime kilns
Model of the quay
A walk along the river took us past a medieval bridge to a mill
Flour mill driven by a waterwheel
Outbuildings are set up as workshops – saddler and wheelwright
Blacksmith
Saw pit – the man on the top was top dog and the one under was the underdog
Such a variety of things to see here at Cotehele
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