HomeProjectsAboutContactPlace House is in the heart of the Cornish coastal town of Fowey and has been lived in by the Treffry family since the thirteenth century; dwelling at Place through the Middle Ages, the Tudors, the Stuarts, the Civil War and the Age of Improvement in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Working with our students at Place has been an unique opportunity as the house has never been systematically studied or open to the public. With a group of our students, we undertook a range of archival and physical investigations on site.
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Students researched and produce a Statement of Significance for Place House based on original archival research and on-site physical investigations.
For their second project at Place students worked on groups to undertake original field work recording the historic fabric of the house and gardens, undertaking oral history interviews with the family and building digital archives. Here, a group is recording the historic stained glass in order to produce a catalogue, 'glass map' and report.
The 'garden group' are reconstructing the lost Edwardian gardens at Place through a combination of site analysis and original printed sources including the discovery of the original designs for the Rose Garden. Here students are measuring the remaining structure of the Rose Garden.
To find out more about any of our projects please contact us: daniel.maudlin@plymouth.ac.uk