Tresillian House, St Newlyn East

Tresillian House

Entrance drive to Tresillian House
General information
Type Country house
Location Near St Newlyn East, Cornwall
Country England
Coordinates 50°23′9″N 5°1′4″W / 50.38583°N 5.01778°W / 50.38583; -5.01778

Tresillian House is a country house near St Newlyn East, off the A3058 road, Cornwall, England. It was registered as a Grade II listed building on 30 May 1967. It is most associated with the Bennet family historically; John Bennet, Curate of Antony was once owner of the house and in 1837 it was occupied by Richard Gully Bennet, who was a Magistrate of Cumberland.[1][2] Tresillian means "a place of eels" in Cornish.[3]

Architecture

The house is dated to the late 18th-century but was extended in the mid 19th-century for the Gully-Bennett family. It is a two storey house, made of gritstone and granite flush quoins, with a dalabole slate roof and twelve paned windows with Georgian glazed panels, five of them at the front.[4] The central entrance hall on the north-east front leads to a large oak staircase and the library (refurbished in late 19th -early 20th century) and main drawing room are located on the south-east side. The drawing room has a central floral rose and a Carrara marble chimneypiece. It was recently restored by Robert Rowett Architectural Services.[5]

Descent

Gully

Bennet

Robinson

In 2000 Tresillian was purchased by George Edward Silvanus Robinson (born 1956), who was a founding partner of the City of London hedge fund Sloane Robinson, founded in 1993, which in 2008 was the sixth biggest European hedge fund with assets under management of $15.1 billion, but in 2012 ranked 32nd with $3 billion in assets. His wealth was estimated in 2009 by The Sunday Times Rich List at £100 million[16] and in 2012 by the Daily Mail Newspaper at £220 million.[17] He is a prominent donor to the Conservative Party[18] and in 2004 was appointed a trustee of the right-wing think-tank Policy Exchange. Tresillian had been purchased from the Bennet family after World War II by his maternal grandfather, a noted gardener and specialist breeder of daffodils, who created the Summerscourt daffodil, a variety of narcissus. George's mother spent her childhood at Tresillian. He kept on the head gardener since 1985, John Harris, now a well-known gardening expert and broadcaster who follows the principles of Moon gardening,[19] plant management in accord with the phases of the moon.[20]

Sources

References

  1. Burke, Sir Bernard; Pirie-Gordon, Charles Harry Clinton (1937). A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry. Burke Pub. Co. p. 136. Retrieved 27 January 2012.
  2. The Gentleman's magazine. Printed by F. Jefferies. 1837. p. 108. Retrieved 27 January 2012.
  3. Fox, Sarah Prideaux (1864). Kingsbridge Estuary: with rambles in the neighborhood. G.P. Friend. p. 54. Retrieved 27 January 2012.
  4. "Tresillian House, St Newlyn East". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 27 January 2012.
  5. "Tresillian House Estate". Robert Rowett Architectural Services. Retrieved 27 January 2012.
  6. Burke's, 1937, p.136
  7. Will of Enodor Gully (d.1748), transcript by David Brown
  8. Burke's, 1937, p.136
  9. Burke's, 1937, p.136
  10. Burke's, 1937, p.136
  11. Burke's, 1937, p.136
  12. Burke's, 1937, p.136
  13. Burke's, 1937, p.136
  14. Burke's, 1937, p.136
  15. Burke's, 1937, p.136
  16. See
  17. Alex Hawkes, Daily Mail, 21 July 2012, Major Tory donor forced to repay £2million after investing in tax-dodge scheme favoured by footballers and city banks
  18. Wilkes, Tommy, Hedge fund Sloane Robinson hit by emerging market slowdown, uk.reuters.com, 21 December 2012
  19. Mark Diacono, Daily Telegraph Newspaper, 12 July 2014, Should you use the moon to garden?
  20. Country Life Magazine, 20 June 2012, pp.92-6, article on Tresillian by Kirsty Fergusson
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