Lanhydrock's early history
The same family owned Lanhydrock for over 400 years. Find out about the people who lived here - who loved the place, who loathed it and even who wanted to have the whole place knocked down...
The same family owned Lanhydrock for over 400 years. Find out about the people who lived here - who loved the place, who loathed it and even who wanted to have the whole place knocked down...
Lanhydrock House is a paragon of Victorian style and design. Yet it only appears as it does because it was completely redecorated in the 1880s following a fire which destroyed parts of the building and ended the lives of its occupants.
After the devastation of the great fire in 1881, Lanhydrock became a happy family home where Thomas Charles and his wife Mary raised a large family. But the shadow cast by the First World War brought tragedy to the family yet again.