Olive House Rock
Sleeps 12 in 6 bedrooms
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Olive
House at Lategetaway
Description
Olive House is a large detached house in the centre of the village, opposite the bakery and butchers, on flat terrain about one mile from the beach and golf club.
It has a secluded flat enclosed garden with oversize garden furniture, shady tree, patio and pond.
It has a semicircular in-out drive with parking for four car without blocking eachother in. It also has a separate side drive to the owner/staff cottage, behind the main house with its own separate garden.
It has six bedrooms, three doubles, two bunks and a twin. All the doubles have their own ensuite shower/wc/basin. The remaining bedrooms have individual basins, and in addition there is a family bathroom. One of the double bedrooms is downstairs, useful for grandparents who would prefer not to use the main stairs…. However there are two steps to this part of the house also.
Location
Olive House is in the centre of the
Rock is on the North Cornwall coast, on the east side of the River Camel, whose estuary offers surfing at Polzeath, Golf, sailing, water-skiing at Rock, with more serious shopping at Wadebridge, 4 miles away at the head of the estuary, and more serious eating at Padstow, across the estuary from Rock, where the Rick Stein establishments offer food for the piscatorially inclined (ie fish lovers).
The beach, quay,golf and sailing clubs are about a mile away down a road that dead-ends in the Quarry carpark.
There are numerous footpaths both along the coast, which is largely Duchy of Cornwall and National Trust land, and inland across farm land.
Rock is about 150 miles from
History
Olive House was built in 1903 for one Mr Hancock, of
The house was named for his daughter Olive, who lived there until 1927, when Tremead next door was built for her, and the main house sold.
In 1945 the house was bought by Mr Warn, a Police Inspector from Wadebridge.,
not related to the Warnes in Tremead, who have a different spelling, and
arrived in 1957 to teach at
In 1955, Olive House was bought by Arthur and Phyllis Eddy, farmers from Redruth, who ran it as a guesthouse until they retired. They still live in the village (Jan 2003).
From 1986 to April 2000, the house was owned by the Ramsays, again still living in the village, who ran it as an old peoples’ home.
Finally, in April 2000, we, Philip and Karen Mattos, bought it for use as a holiday home and for later retirement. Our previous house in the village was Sunnyside, much nearer the beach, but very small, with only two bedrooms, and a queue for the one small bathroom.
In time for the Summer 2000 season, we were only able to refurbish the main kitchen, ie the part with the AGA, fitting new units, lights and flooring after combining the kitchen, pantry and corridor into one room. The breakfast room was so bad it was locked up out of use for the year.
In time for Summer 2001 we reopened the breakfast room, and the extended kitchen…..the sink area was previously a utility room, a bathroom, and the staff smoking room !!! The AGA was renewed, and the SouthWest face of the house sealed, painted and chimneys re-rendered
In time for Summer 2002 we added a shower in bedroom 7 (downstairs), demolished partitions in the garden room, the lobby, the downstairs hall and the upstairs landing…. effectively returning the house to its pre-old-peoples-home design as a large family home. (Sleeps 12…. Mummy, Daddy and 10 children !!!… or more often in its holiday use, Granddad and Grandma, Mummy and Daddy, Uncle and Aunt plus up to 6 children… matching the 3 double beds and 6 singles !!!)
Winter 2002/3, the project was to completely refurbish the main bathroom, with new window, replastered, new chinaware and a shower.
Winter 2003/4 we had an easy time, just replacing two back doors (kitchen and loo) and double glazing adjacent, and refurbishing the under-stairs loo
Winter 2004/5 we demolished the wall between the two sittingrooms, replacing it with a glass partition. At the same time we redecorated sitting room and dining room.
Winter 2005/6 we refurbished bedroom 3, which was mainly removing wallpaper and repainting.
Winter 2006/7 we refurbished bedroom 6, replacing its ensuite with a smaller, lighter one that imposed less on the room.
Winter 2007/8 we refurbished bedroom 4, removing its box ensuite and connecting it to the old bedroom 5, now converted to full ensuite bathroom.
Summers are spent working on the owner’s cottage in the back garden!.