Place House

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Place House is a Grade One listed building located in Fowey, Cornwall.

Home of the Treffry family since the thriteenth century, the original structure was a fifteenth century tower, it was defended against the French in 1475 by Dame Elizabeth Treffry. Afterwards it was strengthened through a rebuilt in the sixteenth century, and has been largely unalterted structurally since.[1]

After the death in 1808 of William Esco Treffry, it was inherited together with the family estates by his nephew Joseph Thomas Austen, who changed his name by deed poll to Joseph Treffry.

Not open to the public, the best view of the tower is from beside the River Fowey.[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Place House, Fowey
  2. ^ Fowey - Cornwall
  • Higham, Robert A., 1999, 'Castles, Fortified Houses and Fortified Towns in the Middle Ages' in Kain, R. and Ravenhill, W., Historical Atlas of South-West England (University of Exeter Press) p136-43
  • Salter, Mike, 1999, The Castles of Devon and Cornwall (Malvern) p20
  • King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol1 p78
  • Pevsner, N. revised by Enid Radcliffe, 1970, Buildings of England: Cornwall (Harmondsworth) p58-9
  • Turner, T.H. and Parker, J.H., 1859, Some account of Domestic Architecture in England (Oxford) Vol3 pt2 p361


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