Post by lozwinter on Apr 13, 2005 13:52:42 GMT
{probably spelt wrong LOL)
Name and location: Prideaux Place, Padstow, Cornwall
Description: A vast stately home with many windows and chimneys, built from grey stone and surrounded by acres of land that is now a deer park
Era: The house was built by Sir Nicholas Prideaux in the late Tudor period after his family inherited the land in the early part of the sixteenth Century.
History:
- Prideaux Place was built on the site of a monastic grange, previously inhabited by the former Barton of the Monks of Bodmin, who lost the land following the Reformation
- The house has been owned and lived in by the Prideaux family for 14 unbroken generations, first recorded as Lords of Prideaux Castle at Luxulyan in 1066.
- The Prideaux Family is an ancient Cornish clan whose origins date back to the 11th Century and descend from William the Conqueror, Edward 1 and Queen Eleanor of Castile.
- The family were notoriously unlucky politically through the years backing Cromwell in the English Civil War and taking part in Monmouth's Rebellion of 1685. for this support Edmund Prideaux was sent to the Tower of London.
- Of the house's 46 bedrooms only six are habitable - the rest have been kept just as the American Army left them at the end of WW2 when they stayed there before being dispatched to Omaha Beach on D-Day.
Ghost ratings:
- One particularly persistent phantom has become known as Scullery Boy, as he is often seen in the kitchen and pantry. He is said to looks like an Elizabethan kitchen hand, and is witnessed running from one to the other. Apparently he is so real looking that the first time the current owner saw him she thought it was her son William messing about, but when she went into the pantry the boy had disappeared.
- A 19th Century woman has been spotted sewing in a chair in the morning room.
- On the main staircase there have been many sightings of both a green and a grey lady. The green lady is also said to haunt the upstairs landing, the grounds and in a nearby bedroom, where she apparently likes to chase people out! It is thought by some that she is Honor Fortescue the young wife of Humphrey Prideaux, who threw herself off the balcony at the top of the staircase because she was so distraught at his early death.
Spooky experiences:
- The Grenville Room is said to carry within it a terrifyingly oppressive atmosphere that freaks out many visitors. The children of the current owners refuse to go in or near there.
- In the upstairs bedroom a guest was convinced that a supernatural dog was sitting under the bed growling at him. He sat up all night too scared to move, only to find that there was no dog there.
- The temperature is said to drop dramatically in the kitchen and pantry.
What happened when Most Haunted visited??
door opening and closing, bangs and dare i say it.....bunnies
And Also an appearance from Louie Savva yey!
Name and location: Prideaux Place, Padstow, Cornwall
Description: A vast stately home with many windows and chimneys, built from grey stone and surrounded by acres of land that is now a deer park
Era: The house was built by Sir Nicholas Prideaux in the late Tudor period after his family inherited the land in the early part of the sixteenth Century.
History:
- Prideaux Place was built on the site of a monastic grange, previously inhabited by the former Barton of the Monks of Bodmin, who lost the land following the Reformation
- The house has been owned and lived in by the Prideaux family for 14 unbroken generations, first recorded as Lords of Prideaux Castle at Luxulyan in 1066.
- The Prideaux Family is an ancient Cornish clan whose origins date back to the 11th Century and descend from William the Conqueror, Edward 1 and Queen Eleanor of Castile.
- The family were notoriously unlucky politically through the years backing Cromwell in the English Civil War and taking part in Monmouth's Rebellion of 1685. for this support Edmund Prideaux was sent to the Tower of London.
- Of the house's 46 bedrooms only six are habitable - the rest have been kept just as the American Army left them at the end of WW2 when they stayed there before being dispatched to Omaha Beach on D-Day.
Ghost ratings:
- One particularly persistent phantom has become known as Scullery Boy, as he is often seen in the kitchen and pantry. He is said to looks like an Elizabethan kitchen hand, and is witnessed running from one to the other. Apparently he is so real looking that the first time the current owner saw him she thought it was her son William messing about, but when she went into the pantry the boy had disappeared.
- A 19th Century woman has been spotted sewing in a chair in the morning room.
- On the main staircase there have been many sightings of both a green and a grey lady. The green lady is also said to haunt the upstairs landing, the grounds and in a nearby bedroom, where she apparently likes to chase people out! It is thought by some that she is Honor Fortescue the young wife of Humphrey Prideaux, who threw herself off the balcony at the top of the staircase because she was so distraught at his early death.
Spooky experiences:
- The Grenville Room is said to carry within it a terrifyingly oppressive atmosphere that freaks out many visitors. The children of the current owners refuse to go in or near there.
- In the upstairs bedroom a guest was convinced that a supernatural dog was sitting under the bed growling at him. He sat up all night too scared to move, only to find that there was no dog there.
- The temperature is said to drop dramatically in the kitchen and pantry.
What happened when Most Haunted visited??
door opening and closing, bangs and dare i say it.....bunnies
And Also an appearance from Louie Savva yey!