No 7 Churchtown

Beautiful cottage hidden away off the Main Street. The cottage was tastefully furnished, with well equipped kitchen, everything you would need for self catering, even a lemon squeezer and super sharp knives. Lovely soft towels and good quality bedding. We arrived on a particularly wet cold day for July, and the cottage was quite chilly, we tried to advance the heating to no avail, we contacted Classic Cottages who gave us the housekeepers number, but unfortunately the number we were given was not correct. The following day however, the housekeeper and her husband came to look at the problem but again unfortunately neither of us could advance the heating. The housekeeper contacted the owners who then arranged for a local plumber to come to look at the problem. He ordered a new programmable thermostat and the problem was sorted out albeit after 5 days. St Agnes is a quaint village on the coast with all you need close by including butchers, bakers (most tasty ever sour dough bread and pastries) farm shop, deli, pubs and local caught fish shop, J Earl, just a mile away towards Chapel Porth beach (fresh crab was superb in Nigella Lawson linguine recipe). Parking is not easy but is workable with council car park at top of the village. St Agnes Head just out of the village has spectacular views. Places to visit near by include, Perranporth, Mylor bridge with great marina, and Holywell Bay beach, also only one hour away to Padstow, Carbis Bay and St Ives. For us St Agnes is one of Cornwalls best kept secrets, so let’s keep it that way, would definitely want to return. A true Cornish gem....

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