Pengreep Estate, Ponsanooth, Cornwall

Pengreep House was originally a farmhouse built in the early 18th

century by the Beauchamp family. When Joseph Beauchamp died in 1818, the

lease of the house was advertised and the house was described as “The

mansion house of Pengreep, together with the coach house, walled

gardens, beautiful ponds, pleasure grounds, plantations and about 120

customary acres of meadow land, with several cottages for servants or

laborers: the whole in high order and condition and fit for the

residence of a large and genteel family.”

During the nineteenth century Pengreep was occupied by John Williams

(whose grandmother had been a Beauchamp) until in 1890 it became the

residence of the Ford family who were related by marriage to the

Beauchamps.

Pengreep has been the seat of at least three High Sheriffs of Cornwall, most recently in 2012.