September 2024
Trelissick Walls - Conservation Project
At the heart of Trelissick is a 2-acre walled garden, which for many years was rightly named the ‘Fruit Garden of Cornwall’. After extensive planning and consultation, the National Trust aims to create a 21st century productive walled garden that champions fruit growing and traditional skills and offers hands-on training and experiences for all. Apples, pears, maybe more exotic peaches and apricots will be grown, and even though it will look and feel like the traditional walled kitchen garden it once was, it will be designed very much with the future in mind.
Extensive repairs are required to the grade II listed kitchen garden walls at Trelissick as the first stage of this major project to reinstate the walled garden. The garden has remained dormant and inaccessible over the past decades but the overall project will ultimately enable the garden to be re-planted and opened to the public.
We have now received funding to enable us to undertake the repair works to three of the four walls in the garden. The work will be completed by Spring 2025. The fourth wall requires planning permission and listed building consent and so will be included in the full planning application for the restoration of the walled garden.
The walls are made of brick with a stone coping requiring specialist lime mortar and high quality, specialist conservation techniques to complete the works. Due to the scale and specialist nature of the repairs this is estimated to take approximately 6 months to complete.