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The medieval town hall, now occupied by the Fowey Museum. The site currently occupied by the town hall complex was originally inhabited by a 14th-century guild chapel. [2] The first municipal building on the site was a medieval single-storey merchant's house built in rubble masonry and completed in the 15th century.
Fowey Town Hall, on the Town Quay, was completed in 1787. [12] Fowey elected two members to the unreformed House of Commons until the Reform Act 1832 stripped it of its representation as a rotten borough, it having lost its borough corporation a few years before. [13]
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A ferry service operates between Fowey and Bodinnick and gives its name to The Old Ferry Inn, [19] a 400-year-old building on the steep lane down to the riverside. [20] A 4 miles (6.4 km) walk along the hill tops connects Bodinnick to Polruan in the south. [21] In Bodinnick Hall Place is a Methodist chapel now in use as a shippen. Features of ...
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 1457 by Elizabeth Treffry.
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Jonathan Rashleigh (1642–1702), grandson, Sheriff of Cornwall in 1686/7, and several times MP for Fowey, of whom a portrait exists at Antony House, Torpoint, Cornwall, the home of his second wife Jane Carew, daughter of Sir John Carew, 3rd Baronet (1635–1692) of Antony. After his death in 1702 the estate was inherited by his eldest son by ...