Lanhydrock is a large country mansion near Bodmin in Cornwall, England, in the United Kingdom. It is situated in extensive grounds (360 hectares or 890 acres) above the River Fowey and is today managed by the National Trust, in whose ownership it has been since 1953. It is a Grade I listed building.
Much of the present house dates back to Victorian times but some sections are more than 200 years older, dating from about 1620.
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Lanhydrock is a large country mansion near Bodmin in Cornwall, England, in the United Kingdom. It is situated in extensive grounds (360 hectares or 890 acres) above the River Fowey and is today managed by the National Trust, in whose ownership it has been since 1953. It is a Grade I listed building.
Much of the present house dates back to Victorian times but some sections are more than 200 years older, dating from about 1620.
The estate belonged to the Augustinian priory of St Petroc at Bodmin but the Dissolution of the Monasteries during the 1530s saw it pass into private hands. In 1620 wealthy merchant Sir Richard Robartes acquired the estate and began building Lanhydrock House, designed to a four-sided layout around a central courtyard and constructed of grey granite. Robartes died in 1624 but work on the building was continued by his son John Robartes, 1st Earl of Radnor, a notable public figure who served as Lord Privy Seal and Lord President of the Council.
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