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Ednovean Farm’s twenty four years as a B&B!

May 12, 2015

The entrance to Ednovean Farm
The entrance to our car park at Ednovean Farm is now framed by lush planting

It was on the 11th of May in 1991 that Charles carried me through the front door from our wedding reception after an earnest year of converting our Farmhouse into our home from a 17th-century granite barn.

We had spent a year working on the main part of the building to make our home and in 1991 we put a hand painted sign at the end of our drive and waited for our first guests to arrive. Weeks went passed until finally a lady came along and reserved the yellow room – a pretty twin bedroom decorated with Sanderson’s vintage Lilly pad fabric, white washed walls, painted furniture and Laura Ashley wallpaper with a shower room unfashionably across the hall (Sorry this bedroom is now the office)

As fate would have it, our first guest was a marriage guidance councillor and I opened our guest book at the second page for her to sign in – I didn’t want her to know she was our first guest after all! I did confess to her as she left and she begged me not to let anyone else sign the book in front of her entry.

Our wedding day on the 11th of may 1991 - one of my favorite pictures not the professional one but one taken by my father with my aunts vying for photos
Our wedding day on the 11th of may 1991 – one of my favorite pictures not the professional one but one taken by my father with my aunts vying for photos
Charles spent many hours chipping out the old mortar
Charles spent many hours chipping out the old mortar
Esso was fond in one of our hedges as a tiny kitten and became a farm cat. he moved in when we did and became a "House Cat" and wasn't allowed in the bedrooms. Photo from Germany I believe!
Esso was fond in one of our hedges as a tiny kitten and became a farm cat. he moved in when we did and became a “House Cat” and wasn’t allowed in the bedrooms. Photo from Germany I believe!
With a young horse Sooty outside what is now the Blue room
With a young horse Sooty outside what is now the Blue room
Now part f the garden a few jumping poles made a comfy set in those days
Now part f the garden a few jumping poles made a comfy set in those days
leading young horse out to the field through what is now the courtyard garden
leading young horse out to the field through what is now the courtyard garden
A photo sent back to from America of me and George from an early American guests
A photo sent back to from America of me and George from an early American guests
The unconverted barn and lots of concrete! This has become the front door now
The unconverted barn and lots of concrete! This has become the front door now
This stable is now the Pink room bathroom mu lurcher Maizie brown with Momma-Cat and Jessica
This stable is now the Pink room bathroom mu lurcher Maizie brown with Momma-Cat and Jessica

 

We’ve met so many wonderful people over the years and to this day I continue to hear uplifting stories that my guests share with me over Breakfast. Stories of being wounded on the Russian front or as Philichea put it “I had the good fortune to be wounded on the Russian front” to grandmothers refusing Sati to allow her children to survive and prosper. The honeymoon’s, the birthdays, the anniversaries, the special times that couples share all have come and gone and taken  a little bit of Ednovean away with them.

New roofs and drains
New roofs and drains
We grew to love the rusty old dumper truck
We grew to love the rusty old dumper truck
The lower buildings that started life as a cow shed before serving as a stable for my horses for many years. now it hosts the Blue and the Apricot room
The lower buildings that started life as a cow shed before serving as a stable for my horses for many years. now it hosts the Blue and the Apricot room

We’ve seen many changes to B&B’s over the years, the “new” guest requirement for an en suite bathroom left the Yellow room behind and we closed it to become what now might be described loosely as an office (for which read dumping ground)

Renovating a traditional cornish barn
We had windows we must be finished!

The days when “access to a telephone” for guests was so important, are now long gone as every guest carries their own mobile phone these days – the first question now is likely now to be “What is the Wifi code?”

The decline of the great British guidebooks have been one of the saddest consequences of the online age, those wonderful titles with authors who knew exactly what their readers were looking for and became a one stop shop for the converted. “Off the Beaten track”, “The Which Good Bed and Breakfast Guide”  the “Which Good Hotel guide” and “The best Bed and breakfast guide” all gone now and swallowed by the internet.

One thing stays the same though – a comfy bed, a tranquil setting and a good satisfying cooked breakfast in the morning are still the backbone of every B&B!

I walked passed the fountain this morning
I walked passed the fountain this morning
Gardens in an old farmyard in cornwall
The gardens formed from the old farmyard
Fountain in our courtyard
The lady of the fountain that is the centrepiece to our courtyard garden
The view over Mounts Bay to Penzance
The view down over the courtyard gardens landscaped from the old farmyard as it is today with the view over Mounts Bay to Penzance

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Christine Taylor

About Christine Taylor

Christine has written a weekly blog about life at Ednovean Farm and interesting places to visit in West Cornwall for over ten years now, concentrating on those off the beaten track places that only the locals find.

Charles and Christine Taylor have hosted Luxury Bed and Breakfast at Ednovean Farm Nr Penzance in West Cornwall since 1991 and live there with three cats and five horses, including a Spanish Stallion called Danni.

Ednovean Farm has been awarded AA five star gold for Bed and breakfast and is included in The Michelin Guide and The Alastair Sawday Guide .

The Farmhouse and gardens has been featured in BBC Homes and Antiques, Homes and Gardens. Period Living and 25 Beautiful Homes as well as being used as a film and photo shoot location.

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