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November 20th, 2025

A Private View: an 18th-century cottage on the edge of Cornwall’s Lost Gardens of Heligan

Twenty-five years ago, Peter Hampel was working as the Creative Director of the Eden Project when, one morning, the co-founder Tim Smit called him and said: "Take the morning off work, I’ve found your dream cottage." Less than half an hour later, Peter had purchased Rose Cottage – a remarkable home shaped by its exceptional setting and the creative energies that have passed through it. As it comes to market again, Inigo explores this deeply peaceful home hidden away in the last vestiges of the Atlantic temperate rainforest on the south coast of Cornwall

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film: Arran Busk/ Peep Film Ltd
words: Ellie Hughes
photography: Will Head

A Private View: an 18th-century cottage on the edge of Cornwall’s Lost Gardens of Heligan

Rose Cottage, Heligan, Cornwall

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