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Fentafriddle

Cornwall, United Kingdom[view map]

Fentafriddle (the main house) is over two floors. The open-plan kitchen, living room and roundhouse lounge area are downstairs, and this leads onto bedroom 4 and a separate toilet. Bedrooms 1, 2 and 3 are upstairs. Both Little Fentafriddle and Tremanon have open-plan kitchen/living areas, with bedrooms 1 and 2 leading directly off it.

Interior

Bedrooms

Fentafriddle

Bedroom 1: the best bedroom in the house. This floral-themed chamber, adorned with botanical prints that complement its red toile de jouy curtains and cushions, comes with an enormous sleigh bed. A well as an en-suite bathroom with shower, there’s also a freestanding roll-top bath and antique French wooden screen in one corner. The original pigeon holes (this was a working barn, remember?) now have glass in them, but make for a stylish design feature.

Bedroom 2: a twin room, though the two beds can be zipped together to make a double. A large, south-facing window gives the room a lovely, airy feel – but, as this is often used as a children’s room, there are removable bars over its lower half – and there’s an en-suite bathroom with shower.

Bedroom 3: another room with twin beds that can be zipped together to make a wonderfully comfortable double. It has a characterful under-the-eaves feel, with exposed beams framing the bed, and there’s plenty of well-chosen antiques dotted about. It comes with an en-suite bathroom containing a bath.

Bedroom 4: just off the living area, this downstairs room with twin beds (that can easily become a double) is small but cosy. It leads onto a wet room containing a shower with a dinner-plate-sized head.

Little Fentafriddle

Bedroom 1: Double room with en-suite bathroom and shower.

Bedroom 2: Double room with en-suite bathroom and bath.

Tremanon

Bedroom 1: Double room with en-suite bathroom and shower.

Bedroom 2: Double room with en-suite bathroom and bath.


Kitchen
Managing to look both modern and rustic at the same time, the large kitchen in the main house includes plenty of work surfaces – including a breakfast bar in the middle of the room, which contains the dishwasher and sink. Other facilities include an oven, microwave and Dualit toaster, and there’s a washing machine and dryer in the adjacent utility room. There’s a dining table for eight, overlooked by a well-stocked Cornish dresser, and the whole room is hung with colourful wooden images of farmyard animals. There are also French windows leading out onto the lawn, and overlooking the sea beyond. The well-equipped kitchens in Little Fentafriddle and Tremanon are both part of an open-plan living area.
Living room
There are two living areas in the main house. The first – smaller one – is immediately off the kitchen, and contains a huge kilim sofa, leather chair, a wood-burning stove and plenty of games and books. There’s also a flatscreen TV with Sky and a DVD player. In the roundhouse (where flour used to be ground in Fentafriddle’s working-farm days), leading off the other living room, you’ll find a large corner sofa, several comfy chairs, and plenty of effortlessly blended antique and modern furniture – all beneath atmospheric exposed beams and brickwork. There’s also a TV with Sky and a DVD player in here, too. French windows on two sides lead out to different sections of the terrace. The living areas in Little Fentafriddle and Tremanon are both equally well-stocked, and come with wood-burning stoves. Both are warmed by an ingenious, very ‘green’ natural-heating system, in which heat is drawn from beneath the soil in the surrounding fields.
Dining room
The dining areas in all three properties are incorporated into the kitchen space.
Other
Toilets don’t come much better than the one at Fentafriddle. As well as being painted in a deep, decadent red, and being stocked with every toilet book you can imagine – from Giles cartoons to the Little Book of Calm – it’s door has been taken from a local hospital. Peer closely, and you can see the words ‘Operating Room’ seared into the wood.

Outdoor

Gardens
Each of the houses has its own terrace – either decked or laid with Cornish slate. The main house has a terrace with a gas barbecue and dining table for eight; this also wraps around the front of the property, and is dotted with wooden outdoor furniture and sculptures by the owners’ son. The main house has its own small lawn directly in front of it. But, as all of the properties are surrounded by 50 acres of fields, there’s plenty of grass to lie on.
Parking
There’s ample room for plenty of cars.
Other
There’s a field of donkeys in front of the properties. Give yourself a treat – take them a sugar lump.