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FROM FARMING
TO FESTIVALS You couldn’t really imagine Poldark at a music festival, but those are two of the characteristics – old and new – of Scorrier House.
ABOVE é The grand sweeping staircase in the main house INSET ì Great Estate Festival, the 'rambunctious garden fete'
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uilt in 1778 by the mining entrepreneur John Williams, Scorrier House was then at the epicentre of Cornish industrialism. Tin and copper was sought all around Scorrier as its occupant’s lives were dictated commodit uctuations arming took care of life when the chips were down. The Williams’s then chased their fortunate underground. Today, however, it’s a very different story. Seven generations later, Scorrier remains in the hands of the Williams family, however the family-run business has since moved above ground, into the beautiful house and gardens of the magnificent corrier state hanks to its large interiors uilt during mining’s he da corrier ouse makes the perfect party venue. It’s licensed for weddings and includes all the amenities you might expect from any country house wedding venue but with one major difference: it’s completely private. Along with privacy comes personality. amous for their otanical adventures the Williams’s once employed the famous plant hunter, William Lobb), the lofty conservatory is stuffed with e otic owers from the world over nd after fire damage a centur ago the family decided to turn the main hall into an art gallery. You therefore have a vast
sweeping staircase and enough room to seat 120 people, all in one room! oda man know corrier ouse for the reat state estival which takes place every June. This ‘rambunctious garden fete’ takes place across several stages and venues in the grounds, garden and – this year – the house itself estival goers have the uni ue opportunity to join the grand tea and brunch parties taking place in the halls over the weekend a chance to part like a oldark if ever there was one. But the festival is just one of a series of pu lic events taking place at corrier this ear ook out for its summer theatre fun runs wellness events and this aster onda an aster egg hunt and a run in the grounds with tea at the house. arties aside there are some elements of corrier that will not change till a working farm, cows, horses and dogs can always be found wandering the estate and, on a visit to Scorrier House, you’ll probably bump into at least one of them!
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