Place House, Fowey (The Gatehouse Record)

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as;
Faweye

In the civil parish of Fowey.
In the historic county of Cornwall.
Modern Authority of Cornwall.
1974 county of Cornwall.
Medieval County of Cornwall.

OS Map Grid Reference: SX12515175
Latitude 50.33577° Longitude -4.63581°

Place House, Fowey has been described as a probable Pele Tower.

There are masonry ruins/remnants remains.

This is a Grade 1 listed building protected by law*.

Description

Site of C15 tower. The seat of the Treffry family, playing a large part in the life of Fowey, and was defended against the French in 1475 by Dame Elizabeth Treffry, and soon afterwards strengthened and largely rebuilt in early C16. Current Place House is the early C16 rebuild (although the Cornwall and Scilly HER report the medieval core survives) which is Grade 1 listed.

The French-men diverse tymes assailid this town, and last most notably about Henry the vj. tyme: when the wife of Thomas Treury the 2. with her men repellid the French out of her house in her housebandes adsence. Wherapon Thomas Treury buildid a right fair and stronge embatelid towr in his house: and embateling al the waulles of the house in a maner made it a castelle: and onto this day it is the glorie of the town building in Faweye. (Leland)

Sources of information, references and further reading

National Heritage List for England Listed Building number(s) 1218869
Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s) 432303.
County Historic Environment Record (or Sites and Monuments Record) number(s) 26827.

Books
- Higham, Robert A., 1999, 'Castles, Fortified Houses and Fortified Towns in the Middle Ages' in Kain, R. and Ravenhill, W., Historical Atlas of South-West England (University of Exeter Press) p. 136-43
  Salter, Mike, 1999, The Castles of Devon and Cornwall (Malvern: Folly Publications) p. 20
  King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol. 1 p. 78
  Sheppard, Peter, 1980, The historic towns of Cornwall: an archaeological survey (Truro) p. 35-6
  Pevsner, N. revised by Enid Radcliffe, 1970, Buildings of England: Cornwall (Harmondsworth) p. 58-9
  Mackenzie, J.D., 1896, Castles of England; their story and structure (New York: Macmillan) Vol. 2 p. 3 online copy
  Turner, T.H. and Parker, J.H., 1859, Some account of Domestic Architecture in England (Oxford) Vol. 3 Part 2 p. 361 online copy
Periodical Articles
- Preston-Jones, Ann and Rose, Peter, 1986, 'Medieval Cornwall' Cornish Archaeology Hendhyscans Kernow Vol. 25 p. 135-185 online copy
  Cornforth, 1962, Country Life Vol. 131 p. 1510-13, 1568-71
  Pounds, N.J.G., 1937, 'The Medieval Castle in Cornwall' Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society ns Vol. 9.1 p. 31
  Treffry, J.T., 1840, Royal Institution of Cornwall 22nd report p. 64
Antiquarian (Histories and accounts from late medieval and early modern writers)
- Chandler, John, 1993, John Leland's Itinerary: travels in Tudor England (Sutton Publishing) p. 77
  Toulmin-Smith, Lucy (ed), 1907, The itinerary of John Leland in or about the years 1535-1543 (London: Bell and Sons) Vol. 1 p. 204 online copy

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