Anthony House
Anthony House is a handsome eighteenth century house set in an attractive location overlooking the Lynher River.
The house has been home to the Carew family since the fifteenth century and is now owned by the National Trust. It was given to the Trust by Sir John Carew Pole in 1961, on the provision that the family could continue to reside there for the next 50 years. Sir Richard Crew-Pole and his family still live there.
Anthony House was constructed between 1711-1721 for Sir William Carew. The house is faced with silver-grey Pentewan stone, with two wings in brick joined to to the central block with colonnades. The house contains a superb collection of portraits, which includes the famous portrait of Charles I at his trial, as well as works by Joshua Reynolds Among the portraits is that of Rachel Carew, who provided inspiration for Daphne du Maurier's 'My Cousin Rachel '.
The rooms at Anthony House are heavily panelled in Dutch Oak and contain fine collections of eighteenth century furnishings and tapestries.
Surrounding the house are 25 acres of superb formal gardens, established in the eighteenth century and designed by the renowned Georgian garden designer, Humphrey Repton. Hedges of topiary and yew were added in 1800.
The gardens include the national collection of day lilies (Hemerocallis) and have an excellent collection of rhododendrons, azaleas and camellias, they also include a beautiful black walnut tree, a Japanese ornamental pond, formal courtyard and terraces, knot garden and an eighteenth century dovecote.
The woodland garden, which is not the property of the National Trust, but still in the ownership of the Carew Pole Garden Trust, posseses some superb Magnolias and offers woodland walks extending down to the River Lynher. The Bath Pond Garden House dates to 1789