Port Eliot House and Gardens

14/06/2026

13/06/2026

Memories from Aya & Charlie’s wedding last month captured wonderfully by Lyra & Moth.

What a way to reopen The Orangery and showcase its beauty only surpassed by the couple and guests themselves.

The Orangery is now available for your special day too. Contact [email protected] to learn more.

07/06/2026

Thank you to everyone who came along to our Country House Car Boot this morning! It was fantastic to see so many buyers, and especially lots of hands full on the way back to their cars! The quality of the stalls was great from Cornish slipware pottery to decadent vintage faux fur coats so there was plenty of buying.

It was also lovely to see everyone strolling around the estuary and up to the stables & pub for refreshments and live music. We hope to attract more stalls each month so there’s plenty to look at when you hopefully come again. We already know of a few cracking stalls coming the first Sunday of next month!

07/06/2026

Good morning, and a calm dry start to the day in time for our inaugural Country House Car Boot! Starts at 10am until 2pm. Sellers can set up at 9am! £2 entry for buyers, £7 for sellers.

We welcome you to arrive via our gatehouse entrance in the centre of St. Germans. This will be signposted ‘car boot’ so please follow the signs.

See you soon!

This Sunday, 10am! Country House Car Boot at Port Eliot. What better way to spend Sunday than perusing bargain preloved oddities, usefuls, curios and antiques with the backdrop of the house and parkland! Coffee and refreshments available in our stable yard cafe The Stables at Port Eliot with music from 2pm! A proper roast and available at the village pub The Eliot Arms just a stones throw away from the car boot. The pub also has live music, Jack O’Rourke at 5pm.

£2 entry for buyers, £7 to sell. Sellers are invited to set up from 9am.

We can’t wait to see you!

05/06/2026

It looks like we’re going to get lucky with the weather this Sunday for our inaugural Country House Car Boot! A good chance of a sunny day with the odd possibility of a short spattering of rain here and there. You’re welcome to bring gazebos if you have one but the literal ‘car boot’ will also suffice for shelter in the unlikely event we get a shower!

The house will be putting on tea, coffee and BLT sandwiches and don’t forget that next door The Eliot Arms has a delicious roast available (pre book recommended) and our stable yard The Stables at Port Eliot has coffee and cake covered too with live music at 2-4pm followed by more Live music at the pub 5-7pm.

The perfect Sunday in St. Germans!

04/06/2026

This Sunday, 10am! Country House Car Boot at Port Eliot. What better way to spend Sunday than perusing bargain preloved oddities, usefuls, curios and antiques with the backdrop of the house and parkland! Coffee and refreshments available in our stable yard cafe The Stables at Port Eliot with music from 2pm! A proper roast and available at the village pub The Eliot Arms just a stones throw away from the car boot. The pub also has live music, Jack O’Rourke at 5pm.

£2 entry for buyers, £7 to sell. Sellers are invited to set up from 9am.

We can’t wait to see you!

02/06/2026

Not long now until our first Country House Car Boot of the season this Sunday at 10am! What better way to spend Sunday than perusing bargain preloved oddities, usefuls, curios and antiques with the backdrop of the house and parkland! Coffee and refreshments available in our stable yard cafe The Stables at Port Eliot with music from 2pm! A proper roast and available at the village pub The Eliot Arms just a stones throw away from the car boot. The pub also has live music, Jack O’Rourke at 5pm.

£2 entry for buyers, £7 to sell. Sellers are invited to set up from 9am.

We can’t wait to see you!

01/06/2026

There are many characters behind the scenes that help keep the house & gardens operational and our estate handyman Robin, is particularly intriguing tinkering away in the basement house carpenters room or the stable yard workshop.

Any antique object you hand to Robin, he will fix whether it be a grandfather clock, stick back chair or lamp. The house carpenters room he works from contains all sorts of bygones from the houses past, some under the knife and some in reserve to save others. You can see elephant motifs carved in to wooden objects, old cornicing, furniture hardware and a clock with Port Eliot carved in to it with a very old date.

You may see and hear from Robin on the extended house tour and also get a chance to see inside this room which leads on to the ancient monastic barrels entombed in the basement.

Robin also has a pop up shop from time to time up in the stable yard where you can see and buy oddities as well as his firm favourite, Swiss chalet music boxes!

29/05/2026