Supporting Kea Garden Society at Calenick House in 2026, as part of the annual open Garden Day; Sunday, 09 August 2025
Raising money for great local causes in 2026
Our lovely little hamlet usually pulls together to create a feast for both the eyes and taste buds alike, by baking goodies with refreshments provided throughout the day.
Open to non-KGS members. We look forward to welcoming you.
This year Calenick House opens its gardens in aid of Hidden Help, helping those most in need throughout Cornwall on Saturday, 05 July 2025.
Helping those in urgent need
Our quaint little hamlet helps us out every year to enable us to open both our doors and gates in order to support such a worthy cause.
This year, there has been much progress with the gardens, including the planting of lots of new trees as well as the creation of a new terrace direct from the kitchen. It’s also the first year that our fruit trees have truly blossomed and are looking bountiful.
Thank you for visiting, we look forward to seeing you on the day.
Supporting FFlag and Kea Garden Society at Calenick House in 2024 as part of the annual open Garden Day; Sunday, 23 June 2024
Raising money for great causes in 2024
As usual the hamlet has promised to pull together a feast for both the eyes and taste buds by baking goodies with refreshments provided throughout the day.
On Saturday, 18 June 2022 the Samaritans National Walk 2022 will be calling at Calenick House where there will be a central checkpoint for all three lengths of walk, serving light refreshments and hopefully some delicious baked goods made by local residents.
Further details about the walk including how to register can be found here
Preservation, Conservation, Repair and Refurbishment
New custodians are maintaining Calenick House for the first time in over four decades and it is currently undergoing a major scheme of Preservation, Conservation, Repair and Refurbishment.
Following an extensive period of research, investigative surveys, consultations and formal planning [between Summer 2019 and Autumn 2021], the house is currently in the midst of the resulting periodic restoration project.
Expected to last somewhere between three years and a lifetime, it is a significant project encompassing the entire one acre site that once made up Cornwall’s largest tin smelting house. The site once housed the workshops where the infamous Calenick Crucibles were manufactured as well as featuring ten reverberatory furnaces, two waterwheels, its own leat, stabling, coach house, weigh house and other outbuildings consummate with a house of its stature and purpose, including the prominent clock tower, encasing the one handed clocks movement.
The historic map below depicts the site to the North of the river tinney circa early-1900’s.
While much of the former furnaces as well as the associated chimney stacks etc have long since been demolished, the site remains decipherable with quarried cliff faces and visible topographical remnants in the now pleasant gardens that were likely landscaped circa 1930.
The clock is included in the scope of the restoration project and the movement has been restored to working order, although the owners admit that it is rarely wound during the current restoration. The original bell still hangs inside the spandrel bellcote and is inscribed
William Lemon Esq. 1749, Carclew.
We hope to continue to update this site regularly with all that we have learned so far. Thank you for visiting.
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