Black and white

Acc.no: PEZPH : 2016.50.313

Identification

Item: Rosemorran, Gulval, Cornwall.

Description: A view of Rosemorran House with two unidentified ladies - one with a parasol - stood outside the entrance. The house is reputed to have had the longest thatched roof in Cornwall, and was originally a traditional Cornish long house with cattle living at one end. The earliest records show that a Christopher Veale was living there in 1591. It then passed down through the Veale family to the Malones of Trevaylor. The last Malone to live there was Edmond Malone who died c. 1960, when the house and farm was then purchased by John Rodda of Paul. With his son, Barry, and grandson Gavin, Mr Rodda had the house altered into two dwellings. According to the diaries of George John (1759-1847) who lived at Rosemorran, there was a quoit in a stone circle behind the house which was cleared in 1815 to build a barn and several pottery urns were discovered containing human bones some partly burned. More recently, the Rodda's were ploughing a field at Rosemorran when they ploughed up a number of gold bracelets, now known as the 'Rosemorran Hoard' and in Truro Museum.

Condition: Good

Description

Material: Photographic paper

Production

Method: Printed

Category: Photography

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