Prideaux Place

09/10/2026

Good Morning from Prideaux Place on the last day of opening for the 2026 House Open Season, and It's been very busy welcoming visitors from near and far... Thank you & we'll see you again on Easter Monday 2027.

A very BIG thank you to the wonderful team who work at Prideaux Place and make the season so successful - very Well Done & Enjoy your well-deserved Winter rest.

All the Best, Pippa Betts, Office Administrator

06/10/2026

One of the recent visitors to Prideaux Place playing Edmund Prideaux-Brune's music in the Susannah Room... A rare treat... Thank you & Enjoy.

25/09/2026

Excellent...

We’re delighted to have venison from Prideaux Place, just down the road from us, in the shop today.
And if you swing by tomorrow, we’ll have venison sausages too! 🦌

08/09/2026

Visitors from Morgan-Club-Deutschland who visited Prideaux Place yesterday with their cars - Lovely to see them...

01/09/2026

Set against the trees that fringe the south lawn at Prideaux Place stands an ancient Cornish cross. It was in pieces covered by undergrowth until being discovered in the late nineteenth century.
The cross was then re-assembled - although the bottom section of the shaft was never found - and placed on a plinth of stepped granite blocks. And there it stands to this day.
Our library contains a book ‘Old Cornish Crosses’ by Arthur G Langdon published in 1896 in a limited edition of 54 copies. This book devotes four pages to the Prideaux cross, describing it in great detail. The author quotes an excerpt from a letter he received from Charles Prideaux Brune in February 1888: “I am afraid I cannot give you much information. The cross itself has been here as long as I can recollect (some fifty-six years), and, as far as tradition goes, had been here for a very long antecedent period. Some years since I found the piece of the shaft in the grounds and for preservation I had it placed in its present position on some plain granite steps.”
It is now believed to date from 800 AD and is sadly devoid of much of its original ornamentation due to weathering and the passage of time.
The cross can be seen during a walk around the Prideaux Place gardens, open to the public Monday to Friday, from 10.30 a.m. until 4.30 p.m. Admission to the gardens is £5 per adult. Dogs are very welcome but on a lead please.

28/08/2026

Your table awaits!
Our Terrace Tea Room opens out along the terrace in front of Prideaux Place - and we’re confident in saying that from our tables you have one of the best views in Cornwall.
You look across the deer park to the village of Rock on the opposite shore of the River Camel. From there your gaze will travel to the far horizon - Bodmin Moor, the granite upland at the heart of Cornwall, outlined against the sky. And there are the two highest peaks in Cornwall: Rough Tor at 400 metres and Brown W***y at 420 metres.
The Terrace Tea Room is open Monday to Friday, from 10.30 a.m. until 4.30 p.m., serving teas and coffees and alcohol, soft drinks together with toasted tea cakes, cream teas and cakes.

26/08/2026

The Susannah Room at Prideaux Place boasts not only a beautiful moulded lime plaster ceiling, but also a set of hand made chairs.
Each chair was made for a member of the Prideaux Brune family - their initials are carved into the back rail of ‘theirs’, and the family shield is carved into the back rest.
They were made by Terry Roscoe, Estate Manager at Prideaux Place. He lived with his wife Peggy at Trenio, a hamlet just outside Padstow. Terry was a self taught cabinet maker: having found a book in a library detailing the work of Thomas Chippendale, an eighteenth century master cabinet maker, he used the illustrations to teach himself the techniques cabinet makers used.
Terry developed a remarkable talent for the craft, and so, as Elisabeth Prideaux Brune says: “The art of making furniture still survives into the twenty first century”.

19/08/2026

An Evening with Rick Stein - Fundraising Event on Thursday 24th September 2026...

17/08/2026

Please see below the NEW Menu for this week... Delicious dishes to enjoy!

14/08/2026

All of us at Prideaux Place have been so touched and grateful for the generosity of the good folk of Padstow with their donations of food for the deer herd. Bags of apples and carrots have been arriving and supplementing the special feed being brought in.
This means the deer now have the proper balance of nutrition to sustain their health during this exceptionally dry weather. A vet has been visiting to check on the herd and is pleased with their progress, especially that of the babies.
We are immensely grateful for these contributions - thank you