Tredudwell is an 18th-century manor house above Lanteglos-by-Fowey, a couple of miles from Fowey itself, and its great asset is the view. The ground drops away to the south and west towards Cornwall’s Heritage Coast, so on a clear day you are looking over fields and woodland to the sea beyond. Inside, the house has been carefully brought up to date without losing what makes it a manor — big windows, good proportions, the pleasant sense of having arrived somewhere — and it has been hosting weddings for more than a decade.
The estate runs to some 800 acres, 130 of them sown as wildflower meadow, and there are six licensed ceremony spots scattered through it, including a temple in the grounds that photographs beautifully. Eight bedrooms sleep 18 to 20, so the wedding party wakes up on site and comes down to a full breakfast; there is a bridal suite and a honeymoon suite, and the whole place is taken exclusively. Dogs are welcome. Catering is done in-house by the manor’s own chef, working to seasonal, locally sourced menus and happy to bend them around what you actually want to eat.
What ties it all together is the oak-built reception barn: a modern, handsome building with bi-folding glass doors along one side, so the room floods with daylight through the afternoon and opens onto the grounds when the weather allows. It takes up to 220, which makes Tredudwell unusual — a country-house wedding with a purpose-built party space attached, rather than a drawing room you have to clear.
Where the band plays
That barn is where the evening lives. A dancefloor and a PA system come as part of the package, indoors and out, and the oak frame gives the room a warmth that suits live music: it is resonant without being boomy, and putting a band at the far end from the bar keeps the space sensibly divided between dancing and talking. The glass doors are the detail worth planning around. They make for a wonderful golden-hour first set, and they also mean sound spills outside, so have a word with the venue about how late they can stay open.
How the night ends
A late licence is available and evenings here generally run to around midnight, which is plenty for two sets and a decent stretch of DJ afterwards. Access and load-in are easy by country-house standards, with parking for 150 cars, level ground up to the barn and the sort of approach a Luton van can manage without drama. The one thing worth confirming early is whether live music is expected to finish before the bar does, as is common in rural Cornwall.
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