We recommend visiting the website to plan your visit and to check the upcoming events calendar
You can arrange a tour of the house and gardens, there is also a cafe and shop a range of events take place here across the year
The House at Port Eliot has been lived in for over 1000 years and believed to be one of the oldest continually inhabited dwelling in the UK and full of the accumulated treasures of such a long history
The many varied rooms includes works by Sir Joshua Reynolds and Van Dyck as well as a vast mural by South West England’s most celebrated 20th century artist, Robert Lenkiewicz
Once home to Augustinian monks and having survived confiscation by Charles I, Port Eliot is a unique treasure trove with the rare distinction of being a Grade 1 listed house with Grade1 listed gardens
The earliest written reference to Port Eliot is in a 9th century Cornish liturgical fragment kept at the Bodleian Library in Oxford. It refers to Ecclesia Lnanledensia, which is considered the pre-Christian name of this place
The exact date of the foundation of St Germans priory is uncertain; probably it belonged to the Brito-Celtic age, and possibly even to the time of the great Germanus himself, who is likely to have been directly or indirectly the founder of the House
- Ample Parking (anything from free upwards – depending on the event)
- Dog friendly (depending on the event)
