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130 CORNWALL Arundells and now a convent ; Lanhydrock, built by the first Lord Roberts they called themselves later Robartes; Place House, Fowey, with rich sculpture ; Trerice, the old seat of the Arundells; Tregudick with its Elizabethan hall ; Penheale, once the seat of the Speccots, in Egloskerry ; Tonacombe, an unaltered house of the reign of Henry VII, Cothele in Morwenstow ; Penfound in Poundstock, small but charming; and Lanreath, with a carved oak parlour, the ancient house of the Grylls family. There are others, now farmhouses, and only spared on that account, deserted when the squires moved elsewhere and did not pull down their ancestral residences. A monastic building consisted of a church, with a