Houses of Trebetherick

Beniguet is one of the houses in Trebetherick which has stayed in the same family for almost seventy years. The house was built in 1934,…

Brayfield was built in 1978 by the Gerrish family, who came from near Reading where Mr Gerrish was a coal merchant.  The first entry in…

Cobb Cottage is one of the oldest buildings in Trebetherick.  The original cottage, as seen from the lane, is uppermost, the rest having been added…

Daymer Cottage was built in 1987 by Dr Colin Hallward and his wife Diana, on land which was previously the bottom of Whitebays’ garden.  …

Daymer Dunes was built between the wars by Mrs Borrie (Ruth May, nee Downing), who was then living at Daymer Bay House, though she moved…

Doom Bar House was built in 1934 for Mr and Mrs Anthony Jeffreys, on land that had formed part of Lower Farm, on Daymer Lane….

Drumtarlie was built in the late 1930s by Mr and Mrs Greenshield, who owned several acres of land to the east of Fishing Cove Field…

Grey Ladies was built by Ernest Betjemann, the Poet Laureate’s father, on part of a field known as Well Park, bought from Robert Darell Smythe…

By the early years of the twentieth century there were only three arable farms based in Trebetherick, out of the six recorded in earlier times….

The house now known as Little Torquil was built originally in the 1920’s as the garage to Torquil.  Elsie McCorkindale loved driving, and owned one…

The ‘Life Saving Apparatus House’ as it is called on a 1908 map of Trebetherick is next to what were originally coastguard cottages – now…

Ralph Barlow, a schoolmaster at Sherborne School, bought Stepper in 1937 for £1,500. It was the first house built on the Greenaway cliff by Lewis…

The area of houses at the bottom of Worthy Hill now called The Close was originally agricultural land, and known as Lower Trebetherick.  In 1885,…

Trebarbill was built in 1952 by Emily Lander for her daughter Sylvia and son-in-law Roy Dingle (1915-78). Their second child Barbara was actually born in…

Trefelix was built by Sir John and Lady Walsham in 1927, on retirement from China.  They had been visiting Trebetherick over many years, as Lady…

White Horses was built in 1938 by Lewis Brown, who had bought the land at Trebetherick Point from Ernest Betjeman, the Poet Laureate’s father –…

White Wings was built in 1937 for Mr and Mrs Reginald Gwinn, on land previously owned by Mrs Bessie Betjeman, the Poet Laureate’s mother.  They…

Whitebays was built in 1935 by Mrs Nell Oakley, MBE. She had come to Trebetherick first in 1919, renting St Enodoc Cottage for six weeks…