Tredethy

{{Short description|Country house in St. Mabyn, Cornwall, England}}

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| image = Tredethy House - geograph.org.uk - 5676013.jpg

| caption = Tredethy House

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| locmapin = Cornwall

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| location = St Mabyn, Cornwall, England

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| designation1 = Grade II

| designation1_offname = Tredethy Country House Hotel

| designation1_date = 16 November 2010

| designation1_number = {{listed building England|1327967}}

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File:Helland Bridge, a "Stick Insect" at Tredethy - geograph.org.uk - 222558.jpg

Tredethy is a house and estate in the civil parish of St Mabyn, Cornwall, UK, at Grid reference SX 06 71. It occupies seven acres and is one of a number of small manor houses in the parish all built in the 16th and 17th centuries. The house was extensively restored in 1892 by the prominent Cornish architect Silvanus Trevail.{{cite web |url= http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-67744-tredethy-country-house-hotel-st-mabyn- |title=Tredethy Country House Hotel - St Mabyn - Cornwall - England | British Listed Buildings |first= |last= |work=britishlistedbuildings.co.uk |year=2013 |accessdate=18 May 2013}}

This was the seat of the Rev. Charles Peters (1690–1774), a Hebrew scholar.{{cite web |url= http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-67744-tredethy-country-house-hotel-st-mabyn- |title=Tredethy Country House Hotel - St Mabyn - Cornwall - England | British Listed Buildings |first= |last=English Heritage |work=britishlistedbuildings.co.uk |year=2013 |accessdate=6 February 2013}}

Later it became the home of Prince Chula Chakrabongse of Thailand who married Elizabeth Hunter, an English woman in 1938. Their daughter, Mom Rajawongse Narisa Chakrabhongse, was born in 1956.{{cite web|url=http://www.soravij.com/chakrabongse.html|title=Chakrabongse|last=Soravij|accessdate=24 May 2009}}

[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~royalty/thailand/i30.html HRH Prince Chula CHAKRABONGSE] They lived at Tredethy in the 1940s and 1950s.{{cite web|url=http://www.busby.net/nzca/NZCA_NLvol380Jan09.pdf|title=New Zealand Cornish Association newsletter|accessdate=24 May 2009|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120913112035/http://www.busby.net/nzca/NZCA_NLvol380Jan09.pdf|archivedate=13 September 2012}} At Bodmin there is an ornate granite drinking bowl which serves the needs of thirsty dogs at the entrance to Bodmin's Priory car park which was donated by Prince Chula.{{cite web|url=http://www.busby.net/nzca/NZCA_NLvol380Jan09.pdf|title=New Zealand Cornish Association newsletter|accessdate=2009-05-24|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120913112035/http://www.busby.net/nzca/NZCA_NLvol380Jan09.pdf|archivedate=2012-09-13}}

There is a similar granite drinking bowl at Mitchem’s Corner in Cambridge, donated in 1934 in memory of Prince Chula’s dog called Tony.

In the 1960s Tredethy was converted to a hotel with 11 en-suite bedrooms.{{cite web|url=https://www.hospitalityandcateringnews.com/2014/07/grade-ii-listed-country-house-hotel-cornwall-market/|title=Grade II listed Country House Hotel in Cornwall to market|accessdate=25 April 2021}}