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Trelissick, Feock, Cornwall.
The National Trust.
The Water Tower, early C19, remodelled mid-late C19
Grade ll listed.
The windows of the main tower are circa 1970s enlargements or insertions. Except for slit window to the south all windows are sashes in Gothick style with intersecting glazing bars.
Now a National Trust holiday let.
In 2012, only the gardens are open to the public, The house remains in private hands.
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. 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.
Ida Copeland's husband, Ronald, was the president of Copeland & Spode, the well-known ceramics company based at Stoke-on-Trent. In 1931, Ida stood successfully against Sir Oswald Mosley and won the seat as Conservative MP for Stoke, which she held until 1935. In 1955 Ida gave 376 acres of Trelissick gardens, parkland and woods to the National Trust, retaining use of the house itself for the Copeland family.
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