Trevorrick Farm Stay Holiday Cottages, Padstow, Cornwall

Name: Trevorrick Farm Stay Holiday Cottages, Padstow, Cornwall
Address: Trevorrick Farm, Street Issey, Padstow, PL277QH, GB
Telephone: +441841540574
Price range: £££
Rating: 4.9

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Trevorrick Farm Stay Holiday Cottages, Padstow, Cornwall

Self catering holiday cottages with pool on a small holding close to Padstow, Cornwall. And of course our guinea pigs that everyone loves.

Trevorrick Farm is set in an area of outstanding natural beauty close to Padstow and the north coast of Cornwall. The cottages have been converted from a range of traditional slate barns and stores arranged in a horseshoe with the farmhouse and have been awarded 4 Star Gold by Visit England. We have two romantic cottages for couples with either an open fire or log burner and four cottages ideal fo

r families of 3 or 4. Most cottages have their own enclosed garden, or decked area, to relax and enjoy eating al fresco. Our family friendly farm animals include ducks and hens, a miniature Shetland pony, Kune Kune pigs, a small herd of Dexter cattle (a small breed of cow) and friendly sheep that can be walked on halters which have lambs in the spring. Beyond the cottages there are two play areas, one aimed for the younger children with a large sand pit, small climbing frame, playhouses and a large play combine harvester. For the older children, one end of the playing field we have a giant trampoline, a basket swing and a climbing frame. We also have a play train, play tractor, play landrover and a play farm shop. The playing field can be used for many running and ball games or flying a kite. - We call it the sheep playing field, as we usually keep some sheep in this field to keep the grass down so you may have company! In a converted barn we have a small games room. it has table football, air hockey, and a giant dolls house. Also in the converted barn is our heated swimming pool – open from Easter until the end of October.

28/05/2025

Day 167 of 365 days in the life of Trevorrick Farm and its inhabitants - Saturday 17 May

When I got back from Padstow yesterday, Mike was in trouble. The very ancient post and rail fence of Badgers Way, which could actually date back to the original barn conversion in the mid 1980s (wood lasted better in the past!) had gone wobbly as the posts had rotted. With a bit of support on one, I had hoped it may last the season. But Mike decided to demolish it. I was a bit worried he wouldn't have time to finish it before half term ....hence I was cross.

The ground has slate not far under the soil. No tractor access, so Mike had to hand dig the holes for the new posts with the aid of a big drilly tool. After afew day's hard work, the new fence was finished, but I haven't taken a photo.

Saturday we had arrivals....so it was a cottage preparation sort of day.....

Melanie x

28/05/2025

Day 166 of 365 days in the life of Trevorrick Farm and its inhabitants - Friday 16 May

For some reason the daily doings of the farm and us, have gone somewhat pearshaped, and it's now got to 27 May. I'd been doing so, so well, at keeping up and now it's a bit of a mammoth task.

Friday 16th was another lovely day and it was a case of making hay whilst the sun shines. I walked into Padstow to check the cottage for guests arriving. Just before Tregonce the field was being cut for hay or haylage.

On the way back the maize field just before Benuick was starting to sprout.

In the evening I went to bingo with my neighbour. I missed the last one, so last time I'd gone was a month ago and not sure where that month went! We won a few bits and pieces, but no full houses. But we had a great time.

Melanie x

17/05/2025

Day 165 of 365 days in the life of Trevorrick Farm and its inhabitants - Thursday 15 May

At the moment it's like a daily Easter egg hunt with some of the Aylesbury ducks. They were all laying in the duck house afew weeks ago, but maybe now they are going a bit more broody, and I see them running off purposefully and going in the bushes, and then I see if I can grab the egg before the magpie or jackdaw does.

Usually they will lay before 9am in the duckhouse, but they are not now, and even if I leave them in longer, I think they just keep their legs crossed until I let them out.

First thing this morning I found three broken eggs near Serendipity. I finally tracked the duck down to laying in the dry drainage ditch next to the Serendipity parking space. Whilst it laid it's egg, a drake was watching it, so I managed to recover a freshly laid egg. Two other ducks are laying in a patch of nettles near the duck house in the back garden, and one likes to lay in the yard, in a broken old old ark, which I really should break down and burn as it's doing nothing - apart from somewhere for the duck to go in and lay it's egg.

Also a photo of one of the "possibly" two farm cats. I really have no idea if I still have two as I only see both together afew times a year.

The cat seems to be keeping busy. There are a lot of rabbits around and it devoured a whole small rabbit in front of Serendipity one evening. Amazing how much cats can eat, fur, bones and all. I've also seen it with some voles, which I would rather it left as food for the barn owls. I have no idea if any are still around. We haven't had any nest for years, and I don't think I've seen any roosting in the brn or swooping over the fields for some while now.

Melanie x

17/05/2025

Day 164 of 365 days in the life of Trevorrick Farm and its inhabitants - Wednesday 14 May

Hmmm, middle of the week sort of day, and looking back from Saturday not sure what happened. I was obviously working around the farm, and doing cottage admin.

Photo is of one of my Romsey/Hampshire cross ewes which I bought myself for my birthday in September. Despite getting in with our neighbour's rams for some weeks before Christmas, it looks like they weren't caught, as they would have had lambs by now. They were born last March, I think, and young ewe lambs don't always get pregnant in the first year. And not all young ewe lambs are put to the ram in the first year - depends on how well grown they are. And as they still had growing to do, I'm quite glad they've had a year to grow themselves rather than lambs.

It does have quite an attractive fringe! One year old sheep are very woolly as they are not sheared in the first year, and they will be glad of a haircut. I just need to keep on eye on them to ensure they don't get dirty bottoms and end up with fly strike. I did catch and worm one of them which was a bit messy behind. It was extremely jumpy - much more so than my other sheep. I didn't manage to catch the other one. They are still mostly down in the bottom paddock and I have a bit more sorting out of them to do.

Melanie x

17/05/2025

Day 163 of 365 days in the life of Trevorrick Farm and its inhabitants - Tuesday 13 May

I'd heard the mussels, moule mariniere, at The Pickwick Inn were good, so I popped in just after 4pm for a "light snack" of mussels. - I just had mussels as a starter and a side of fries. I had the restaurant all to myself, and it was just lovely to sit there and admire the view.

Outside there is a great little play area, and you can of course also eat outside. - Or if you have kids, try to burn off any kids energy before you eat inside, lol.

The mussels were sooooo good. They come from the mussel beds at Porthilly (when available), so grown in the Camel estuary and one can almost see where they come from, from the restaurant. How good is that. The fries were nicely cooked too.

The head chef, Kev, brought them out to me, and let me take a photo of him. He said they were particularly big at present. I can see I will be going in for a mussels dish again soon!

Melanie x

Melanie x

14/05/2025

Day 162 of 365 days in the life of Trevorrick Farm and its inhabitants - Monday 12 May

I walked into Padstow. Lovely and sunny after a brief blip and much needed rain over the weekend, though rain here is often overnight.

I treated myself to both a pasty from The Chough Bakery, the best in my view, and an ice cream from Rick Stein's shop, I think that was Treleavan. Well it wasn't just an ice cream, it was a double ice cream, lol.

There is a useful sign in the window of the bakery - with a tip of eating with your back against a wall to stop the sea gulls taking your pasty, or other food. They are a bit of a menace.

Melanie x

14/05/2025

Day 161 of 365 days in the life of Trevorrick Farm and its inhabitants - Sunday 11 May

Poor brown duck, she'd sat on her nest nearly 35 days and for many evenings I had been covering her over at night in an attempt to keep her safe from the fox. But this week a bird started taking the eggs. I found the shells with a streak of blood in them. I found five eggs left, then four then three.......... I put the three remaining ones in the incubator, but one was clearly infertile, and I think the other two may be also. What a shame after she made such an effort to hatch ducklings. I still have two ducks "sitting" in the Dutch barn, but they haven't been sitting for very long.

In the incubator I also have six white runner duck eggs that I was given. I am hoping some of these will hatch as the upright runner ducks are so comical. I may put some Light Sussex eggs in, as it would be nice to have some replacement hens after the fox losses. Chickens only take 21 days to develop and hatch, not too long at all.

Melanie x

12/05/2025

Day 160 of 365 days in the life of Trevorrick Farm and its inhabitants - Saturday 10 May

One of the benefits of having pigs is that they do devour brambles and ivy. Everything in the gardens around the farm has grown rapidly. The kune kune pigs are quite happy with whatever I manage to clear!

I also did some plant repotting. I had a bay tree which had got reed-like grass growing in it, so had to hack that out - the pigs didn't seem so keen on eating that. Then I decided to catch a sheep, that needed a bit of a trim as a bit woolly and messy at the back end. - One of my halter trained ones, and just about managed that.

Always something to do on our little Cornish farm.

It was also a busy morning for cottage bookings, as four came in, in the morning.

Melanie x

12/05/2025

Day 159 of 365 days in the life of Trevorrick Farm and its inhabitants - Friday 9 May

A couple of cottage arrivals today, so it was a "doing things around the farm sort of day".

Just a few photos I took of all the greenery around the farmhouse and driveway, everthing is so lush at present.

Melanie x

09/05/2025

So handy for when you stay with us.... a lovely walk along a quiet lane....just 10 minutes or so....and slightly downhill on the way back...

Melanie x

08/05/2025

Day 158 of 365 days in the life of Trevorrick Farm and its inhabitants - Thursday 8 May - VE Day 80

The 75th Anniversay of VE Day was in lockdown, where have those five years gone. I was born in 1964, so only 19 years after VE day.

My parents, and Mike's were of the interwar generation. My mum was born in 1933 and my dad in 1935. They died in 2010 and 2013 respectively. I bet they had some memories of VE Day, but I can't remember ever asking them. Once people pass, so many memories pass with them. My Dad did National Service in the 1950s and he went to some exotic oversea locations, pretty sure he went to Kenya.

Today was not a good day for me, as on Sunday I developed toothache. It didn't go away, so I made a same day appointment to the dentist in Padstow. The dentist has been there for many years, opposite the Harbour car park, and I am grateful there is a dentist in Padstow.

Unfortunately the news was not good, turned out a large molar had got decay at the end under the gum and will have to be removed. The one next to it was removed some years ago, so that means I have a gap and will need a plate, oh dear, the signs of aging! And the cost - that is always painful. I was given a temporary filling and prescribed antibiotics, sadly as dentist is private, I don't get the benefit of over 60s, free NHS prescriptions.

It was a bit cloudy at times, but ended up lovely and sunny. I did a bit of gardening here and there. Photos are of Shaun the Sheep, aka the ram, and the Badgers Way hot tub area.

Melanie x

08/05/2025

Day 157 of 365 days in the life of Trevorrick Farm and its inhabitants - Wednesday 7 May

We tackled the tagging of Belinda's calf and two cows that had lost a tag. - Number 23 and number 35. We'd ran out of tags for new calves, so had to order more, Belinda's calf is number 41. We have to also order replacement tags for any lost ones.

After TB testing a couple of weeks ago, the cows were not too keen to be herded up! But we managed. Number 23 was the trickiest as she is quite strong and did not like her ear being held to re-tag it.

The calf was actually ok and well behaved.

We then let all the cows out from the bottom paddock into a larger field. The grass is growing, yeah!!!!!

Melanie x

Address

Trevorrick Farm, Street Issey
Padstow
PL277QH

Telephone

+441841540574

Website

http://www.trevorrick.co.uk/

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Trevorrick Farm, a mini working farm, is set in an enviable position overlooking the Little Petherick Creek, towards the Camel Estuary and Rock, close to Padstow and the north coast of Cornwall. The cottages have been converted from a range of traditional slate barns and stores arranged in a horseshoe with the farmhouse and have been awarded 4 stars Gold by Visit England. The resident owners, Melanie and Mike, have loved and lived at Trevorrick for 17 years, and their children now 15 and 19, have grown up here. We have two romantic cottages for couples with either an open fire or log burner, both with optional hot tubs,, and four cottages ideal for families of 3, 4 or even 5, one with optional hot tub. Most cottages have their own enclosed garden, or decked area, to relax and enjoy eating al fresco. We also have a holiday home, Credis View, new June 2018, and Parc en Vine Cottage, just one mile away on the edge of St Issey available to stay in.

Our family friendly farm animals range from guinea pigs to pet, ducks and hens, a miniature Shetland pony, goat, Kune Kune pigs and a small herd of Dexter cattle (a small breed of cow), along with tame “sheep on a rope”, who annually take part in Falmouth Live Nativity. Both adults and children enjoy our five times a week morning feeding and handling time. Beyond the cottages there are two play areas, one aimed for the younger children with a large sand pit, small climbing frame, playhouses and a large play combine harvester. For the older children, at one end of the playing field we have a giant trampoline, climbing frame and massive basket swing. The playing field can be used for many running and ball games or flying a kite. - We often keep friendly sheep “lawnmowers” in this field who will love to join in! In a converted barn we have a games rooms, with table football, air hockey, and a giant dolls house. Also in the converted barn is our heated swimming pool – open from Easter until the end of October.

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