March 2011 is one of the biggest months in Trereife’s history. We opened our doors to the Channel 4 series Country House Rescue hosted by Ruth Watson, ex-Hotel Inspector. After her involvement, we began to put in place a series of improvements to the house that will ensure the safeguarding of the house for generations to come. Below you can find a log of our most recent media involvement.
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Country House Rescue
‘Ruth visits Trereife House in Penzance, Cornwall. It’s a crumbling manor that is making a loss - with the bank close to forcing a sale. Tim Le Grice inherited Trereife House and its huge debts in 1986, and has spent the past 25 years trying to turn around the fortunes of the family home. But Trereife is a house in peril, falling apart at the seams…’
Western Morning News
‘It was perhaps the most difficult phone call that Elizabeth Le Grice had ever had to make, but also, perhaps, the most inevitable.
Trereife, the beautiful Queen manor house set in 80 acres of gardens and parkland on the outskirts of Newlyn, Penzance, had been home to her husband Tim’s family since 1798.
With its parterre gardens, woodland and grazing horses providing the perfect romantic setting for the elegant architecture, its sublime symmetry encasing all manner of ornate original plasterwork and other historically important features, Trereife (pronounced Treave) was a much-loved family home and source of huge pride…’