Shores House seeks to recreate all of the elegance of a Georgian country house, using a degree of craftsmanship usually only found in the renovation of Listed Buildings. The care and attention is extraordinary for a new home: even the rivets surrounding the fireplaces were hand-finished. Many skills were employed: blacksmiths, an engraver, glass etchers, together with stonemasons, joiners and lead workers all continuing to use historic crafts.

Look around and you will discover slate floors, granite slabs, marble fireplaces, oak joinery and cedar. Some details such as the handmade supports for the porchway are reclaimed and are over two hundred years old.

On your arrival, you enter a spectacular, double-height octagonal hallway, protected by a pair of granite columns carved by hand. This slate and marble-floored atrium is overlooked by a gallery that encompasses the whole upper floor. The twin stairs create a forest of hand-carved mahogany newel-posts, scrolls and banisters. Sunlight filters in from a massive etched window depicting the legend of the Mermaid of Padstow.