Bonython Manor

. Since 1999 the owners have been Mr & Mrs Richard Nathan [The Nathans arrived in 1999: "The Cornwall Gardens Guide" by Douglas Ellory Pett, pp28-29. [http://books.google.com/books?id=zsMTpSqSxusC&pg=PA28&lpg=PA28&dq=bonython+nathan&source=web&ots=xWcyVtdU-r&sig=ZSpyYyJZRftd69mEcnvLgn50FsM#PPA28,M1 Previewed on Google Booksearch (accessed 16 January 2008)] ]

Location

It is located five miles (8 km) south of Helston, on main A3083 Helston to Lizard Road,turn Left at Cury Cross Lanes (Wheel Inn) and the entrance is convert|300|yd|abbr=on on the right.

Garden

Magnificent 20 acre colour garden including sweeping hydrangea drive to Georgian manor house (not open to the public). Herbaceous walled garden, potager with vegetables and picking flowers; three lakes in valley planted with ornamental grasses, perennials and South African flowers.

Architecture of house

"Pevsner":

"BONYTHON. Late C18. A delightful granite house of basement and two storeys. Five bays. Eight wide steps with curving handrails rise to the doorway, with fanlight above and wide rusticated surround. The central bay is brought slightly forward. Venetian window above, and a slight pediment with small; fan-shaped window. Four stone balls on hexagonal pillars cap the pediment. Exceptionally elegant. "Pevsner" "Buildings of England: Cornwall ["Buildings of England: Cornwall" by Nikolaus Pevsner, 2nd edition revised by Enid Radcliffe; Yale 1970 ISBN 0-300-09589-9. page 62 - Article on Cury. These remarks are credited to G.M. Trinick, not Pevsner, himself (Footnote, p 62).] "

References

External links

* [http://www.bonythonmanor.co.uk/ Official website]