Prideaux Place, Padstow

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Prideaux Place, Padstow

Image: © David Dixon Taken: 5 Jun 2023

Prideaux Place is a sixteenth-century Elizabethan country house near Padstow. It has been the home of the Prideaux family for over 400 years since being built in 1592 by Sir Nicholas Prideaux. The Elizabethan core of the house has been adapted twice; the first time in the 17th century by Edmund Prideaux. Edmund, like most young men of means at that time, went on a Grand Tour of Europe, and he came home filled with ideas for remodelling his family home on classical lines. Edmund also laid out the gardens. The next major change came in the early 19th century when Rev Charles Prideaux-Brune redecorated the house in the style of Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill Gothic. This has resulted in the house exhibiting a pleasing mix of Elizabethan and Georgian styles (https://www.britainexpress.com/attractions.htm?attraction=310 Britain Express). The house is a Grade I listed building (List Entry Number: 1212008 https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1212008 Historic England)

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