Homes Antiques

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PHOTOGRAPHS CHRISTOPHER DRAKE


JANET GLEESON visits Port Eliot in


Cornwall Britain’s oldest inhabited


building where irreverent surprises


mingle with unexpected opulence


Port Eliot sits in a sheltered Cornish valley
in a parkland setting designed by Humphry
Repton. Parts of the house date back
to medieval times when the house was a
monastery in a flourishing port but most
of what is visible today dates from
the 18th and 19th centuries

H&A LIFESTYLE: Open house


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H&A LIFESTYLE: Open house

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