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Not to be confused with Trelissick Manor, St Erth, Cornwall.

Trelissick

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General information

Type Manor House

Town or city Feock, Cornwall

Country United Kingdom

Inaugurated c. 1750
 Owner National Trust

Designations

Listed Building – Grade II*

Official name Trelissick House and walls surrounding

Designated 28 February 1952

Reference no. 1159398

Trelissick (Cornish: Trelesyk) is a house and garden in the ownership of

the National Trust at Feock, near Truro, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is
located on the B3289 road, just west of King Harry Ferry, and overlooks the estuary
known as Carrick Roads. It lies within the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural
Beauty (AONB). Almost a third of Cornwall has AONB designation.
It receives over 200,000 visitors annually. [1]

Contents

 1History
 2Garden
o 2.1Special plants
o 2.2Gallery
 3References
 4External links

History[edit]

The house

Trelissick, first recorded in 1275, means Leidic's farm.[2] Trelissick in the parish of St

Ewe has the same derivation but Trelissick in St Erth and Trelissick in Sithney have
a different one ("Gwledic's farm").[3]
The house was designed around 1750 by the paternal grandfather of Humphry
Davy for John Lawrence and remodelled in the 1820s by Thomas Daniell. It was
further extended in the late 19th century. It is Grade 2* listed. [4]
The estate has been in the ownership of the National Trust since 1955 when it was
donated by Ida Copeland following the death of her son Geoffrey. A stained glass
memorial bearing the Copeland coat of arms was donated to Feock parish church by
Mrs. Copeland. The house and garden had formerly been owned and developed by
the Daniell family, which had made its fortune in the 18th century Cornish copper
mining industry.[citation needed]

Garden[edit]
Many of the species that flourish in the mild Cornish air, including
the rhododendrons and azaleas which are now such a feature of the garden, were
planted by the Copelands including hydrangeas, camellias and flowering cherries,
and exotics such as the ginkgo and various species of palm. They also ensured that
the blossoms they nurtured had a wider, if unknowing audience. Mr Ronald
Copeland was chairman and later managing director of his family's business,
the Spode china factory. Flowers grown at Trelissick were used as models for those
painted on ware produced at the works.
The Copeland family crest, a horse's head, now decorates the weathervane on the
turret of the stable block, making a pair with the Gilbert squirrels on the Victorian
Gothic water tower, an echo of the family who lived here in the second half of the
19th century (their ancestor, Sir Humphrey Gilbert, was lost at sea in his tiny
ship Squirrel after discovering Newfoundland).
The garden is noted for its rare shrubs. It offers a large park, woodland walks, views
over the estuary of the River Fal and Falmouth.
Special plants[edit]
Trelissick Garden is the home of the National Plant
Collections of photinias and azaras.