Trelowarren

A new Cornwall is emerging, with a new vision for tourism, and Trelowarren is at its leading edge.

This historic, 1000-acre private estate on The Lizard peninsula has been transformed by restoring its environment and converting old or abandoned buildings to provide a real alternative to holiday inflation, based on green principles.

Trelowarren has won eleven awards, many for its pioneering approach to Eco-Timeshare, which combines the appeal of 30 years of holidays at a fixed price with accommodation built, equipped and supplied to the highest environmental standards, in a listed landscape of outstanding natural beauty.

Here, in this wooded paradise between the Goonhilly Downs and the Helford River, a mile from any road, a redundant Georgian barn has been transformed into four houses of unique character and quality. Two 18th century cottages, standing within an Iron Age fort, have been restored to the same demanding standards.

Building a green future for holidays

Eight new houses have been built and construction on six more starts shortly. The first stage in the eventual creation of a 31-house eco-community in two, three and four-bed formats, some looking out over The Lizard AONB, others with forest views or grouped round a courtyard in an 18th century orchard.

Like all the housing at Trelowarren, new or existing, they will be available for self-catering when not committed to timeshare.

Adjoining the orchard are two old walled gardens, which have been redeveloped to provide a reception, tennis-court and swimming-pool.

The pool is naturally filtered, the accommodation supplied with heat and hot water through pipes linked to a CHP boiler fired by coppicing from the Estate.

The objective is for Trelowarren to become carbon-neutral, self-sufficient in food and fuel; a green paradise for people and a magnet for wildlife.

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