Trevarno country estate and gardens

Lake and Victorian Boat house

The Lake and Victorian boat house at Trevarno provide one of this Cornish garden's most idyllic views. It is reputed to have been built by Christopher Wallis Popham in 1838. Ornamental planting around the lake was carried out by several generations of Bickford-Smiths.

Beyond the boat house you can see the pinetum and the large tree on the island in the middle of the lake is the distinctive Swamp Cypress (Taxodium distchum). The water from the lake runs into a series of leats and waterways which lead to Trevarno Mill about half a mile downstream.