Pencarrow

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Pencarrow is a country house in Cornwall, England, UK. Situated between Bodmin and Wadebridge, the house is approached down an almost one-mile long drive.

The house was started in the 1760s, extending an older house on the site, by the fourth Sir John Molesworth, and then completed after his death in 1766, by his son. The architect was Robert Allanson and Pencarrow was probably his finest achievement.

The surrounding woodlands and gardens, laid out by Sir William Molesworth between 1831 and 1835, now contain 160 species of specimen conifers, 700 species of rhododendrons and 60 species of camellias, and an Italian garden, a granite rockery and lake.

Pencarrow also have a local cricket club, which compete in the Cornish division 4 East. They are run and captained by eccentric local landowner Stuart Ellis.

[edit] Trivia

A German company filmed a version of the Rosamunde Pilcher novel The Red Dress here in the summer of 1998.
Sir Arthur Sullivan wrote the score to Iolanthe whilst a guest in the house.