To Book please contact Mrs D. E Gill-Carey:

Penkerris
Penwinnick Rd
St Agnes
Cornwall
TR5 0PA

T: (0)1872 552262
F: (0)1872 552262
info@penkerris.co.uk

This B&B/Guest House/Hotel in St Agnes is a most enchanting, creeper clad Edwardian Residence with a lawned garden and ample parking. It is situated at the very edge of an unspoilt Cornish village – fields on one side, yet shops, restaurants and several old pubs of character on the other. It is a ‘Home from Home’ offering REAL food, including freshly baked bread from the village bakery, our butcher’s home made sausages and freshly caught fish.

Meals are served in the beautiful dining room with its moulded ceiling, portraits, blue glass and copperware. There are comfortable bedrooms of which 4 are en suite with facilities (TV, clock radio, kettle, tea making facilities, shaver points, H&C) double, twin or triple – and an attractive little room with a kitchenette. There are two nice bathrooms and a big shower room. Guests are welcome to use their bedrooms during the day to rest and make hot drinks. There is a bright cosy lounge with a large colour TV, video, DVD, a piano and a log fire in the winter. We have a licence but no actual bar but can of course supply wine to have with dinner, cans of beer to drink in the garden etc. We have a barbecue that guests may use in the garden and they can sit at the picnic tables. The lawn is fine for badminton and there are swings for the children.

Penkerris is within walking distance of three beaches. Trevaunance Cove is only 1 km away. It has the remains of the old harbour on one side and many delightful little pools and rock pools on the other. There are boats pulled up to the top of the beach and some of the locals go fishing. It is comfortably commercialised with one or two shops, a craft centre, a pub and a restaurant. It is a very safe beach and considered safe even at low tide. And it is good for surfing. You can hire boards at the beach. There are beach huts for hire. We, Penkerris, own a beach hut and we can let guests borrow it if required.

Chapel Porth is magnificent with soft sand, great craggy cliffs, huge caves and deep pools. There is a nice little beach café and there are toilets.

Trevellas cove is small and “far from the madding crowd’. There are no facilities – no toilets, no café, no beach guards. You really can ‘get away from it all’!

Penkerris is also within walking distance of the most wonderful dramatic cliff walks. It is possible to walk from one beach to another, right round St Agnes Head, over St Agnes Beacon and you can cut back along a myriad of little footpaths without once having to re-trace your steps. The whole area is steeped in the history of Cornwall’s tin and copper mining era and there are well preserved old Engine Houses to be seen at every turn.

St Agnes is a good place to stay if you want to see all of Cornwall. It is only an hour from Lands End, St Michaels Mount, Tintagel and King Arthur’s Castle and the relatively new Eden Project. There is a bus every hour to Truro – a bustling market town with good shops, a fine Cathedral, river walks and the Royal County Museum (housing a wonderful collection of minerals). Well worth a visit.

St Agnes is of course wonderful for surfing. But there are other good activities. There are two horse riding stables offering riding for beginners or cliff & country hacks for the more experienced. You can hire bicycles nearby and there are specific cycle tracks to be found. We offer a very unusual pastime – gliding. The gliding club is just between St Agnes and Perranporth and you can book lessons.

We are very easy to find from the big Chiverton Roundabout on the A30. You take the B3277 Road into the village (three miles) and Penkerris is the first house on the right after the actual St Agnes village sign.