Place House

Place House
240px Place House seen from the river - to the right of the church.
Place House Place House shown within Cornwall
OS grid reference	SX123518
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Place House is a Grade I listed building located in Fowey, Cornwall, England.

Home of the Treffry family since the thirteenth century, the original structure was a fifteenth-century tower, which was defended against the French in 1475 by Dame Elizabeth Treffry. It was strengthened soon afterwards, largely rebuilt in the sixteenth century and remodelled in the nineteenth century, the east front dating mostly from 1817-45.

After the death in 1808 of William Esco Treffry, it was inherited together with the family estates by his nephew Joseph Thomas Austen, who changed his name by deed poll to Joseph Treffry.

Not open to the public, the best view of the tower is from beside the River Fowey.

Bibliography

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• Salter, Mike, 1999, The Castles of Devon and Cornwall (Malvern) p20
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