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Porthgwen Cove · Cornwall
Escape to the Coast.
A luxury beach house designed for unforgettable stays.
01 · Book Direct
The best of the house,
none of the fees.
Booking directly with us means the platforms take nothing — and you keep the difference.
No Platform Fees
Airbnb adds up to 14% in guest service charges. Direct bookings skip the middleman — a typical week here saves around £420.
Fast, Personal Confirmation
Live calendar and real-time pricing, with a personal reply to every request — usually within the hour, never more than a day.
Flexible Cancellation
Free cancellation up to 30 days before arrival, and free date changes up to 14 days. Life happens — we plan for it.
Local Host Support
Message Eleanor & James on WhatsApp before, during and after your stay. Ten minutes away, always on hand.
Exclusive Offers
Direct guests unlock returning-guest rates, late checkout when available, and first refusal on peak weeks each year.
The long room · morning light
The terrace tub
02 · The House
A house that breathes
with the tide.
Set on the headland above Porthgwen's white-sand cove, The Salt House was rebuilt in 2023 by a Cornish practice in cedar, lime plaster and glass. Every principal room faces the water; the light changes by the hour and the house changes with it.
Five bedrooms sleep ten in quiet comfort. Days end in the cedar hot tub or around the fire pit, salt still in your hair.
5 bedrooms · sleeps 10
4 bathrooms · 2 en-suite
Ocean views from every floor
Cedar hot tub on the terrace
Fire pit & outdoor kitchen
Private parking for 3 + EV
900 Mbps WiFi throughout
Pet friendly · 2 dogs welcome
Workspace with sea view
Family ready · cot & highchair
Step-free ground-floor suite
B-Corp cleaning & solar power
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03 · Gallery
Light, linen & sea.
04 · Availability
Choose your dates.
Live availability, nightly rates and instant booking. Tap an arrival date, then a departure date.
05 · Accommodation
Five rooms,
one horizon.
Room 01
The Lookout
Top-floor master suite with a super-king bed, freestanding bath and a picture window that frames the whole cove.
Super-king
En-suite
Ocean view
28 m²
Room 02
The Dune
Ground-floor king suite in sage and linen, opening to the garden. Step-free from the drive with an accessible wet room.
King
Wet room
Step-free
22 m²
Room 03–05
Gull · Sail · Wick
Two further kings (one zip-and-link to twins) and a cabin bunk room the children will argue over — in a good way.
2 king · bunks
2 bathrooms
Sleeps 6
07 · Things To Do
The Porthgwen edit.
Porthgwen Beach
3 min walkBeach mornings
White sand, clear water, and the cove to yourselves before nine.
Gwithan Sands
12 min driveLearn to surf
Gentle beach breaks and a brilliant local school. Boards in the store.
The Mermaid
8 min walkEat the catch
Day-boat seafood over the harbour wall. Book the sunset sitting.
South West Coast Path
From the gateWalk the headland
Seals at Gull Point most mornings; dolphins if you're lucky.
08 · Location
Far enough away.
Easy enough to reach.
On Cornwall's far west coast, above its quietest white-sand cove — and still only twelve minutes from the mainline sleeper.
Trevern Station · 12 minDirect GWR from London Paddington, incl. the Night Riviera sleeper.
Newquay Airport · 45 minDaily connections from London, Manchester & Dublin.
Private parking · 3 carsGated drive with a 7 kW EV charger. Level access to the door.
Village · 8 min walkBakery, cellar door, harbour and two very good pubs.
09 · Celebrations
Gather your people.
Milestone birthdays, slow family reunions, thoughtful hen weekends, off-site resets and micro-weddings for up to ten seated — celebrated properly, without a function room in sight.
Add a private chef, florals, a photographer or a fully dressed table before you arrive. We handle the details; you pour the champagne.
Plan a celebration
Up to 10 guests · quiet hours from 10pm
The long table · dressed
Terrace · after dark
10 · Amenities
Considered, down to the corkscrew.
WiFi 900 MbpsFull-fibre
EV Charger7 kW on the drive
Chef's KitchenRange cooker · larder
CoffeeEspresso & grinder
Outdoor DiningSeats 12 · sea view
Fire PitLogs included
BBQKamado grill
Beach KitBoards · buckets · brollies
Smart TVNetflix & cinema bar
Hot TubCedar · serviced weekly
Air ConditioningUpstairs suites
Underfloor HeatAir-source
LaundryWasher · dryer · steamer
WorkspaceDesk · monitor · sea view
Dog ReadyBeds · bowls · towels
11 · Questions
Good to know.
Check-in from 4pm with self-arrival by smart lock — your personal code arrives by SMS on the morning of your stay. Check-out is by 10am. Early bags-drop and late checkout are often possible outside peak weeks; just message us.
Genuinely. Up to two well-travelled dogs at £25 each per stay, with beds, bowls, towels and an enclosed garden waiting. Porthgwen Beach is dog-friendly year-round before 10am.
Full refund up to 30 days before arrival; 50% up to 14 days. Free date changes up to 14 days before arrival, subject to availability. We recommend travel insurance for the unexpected.
Send your dates with a booking request; once we confirm availability you pay a 25% deposit by secure payment link or bank transfer — or the full amount if you prefer. The balance is due eight weeks before arrival.
James · under sail
The welcome hamper
12 · Meet Your Hosts
Eleanor & James.
We grew up ten miles apart, left for London, and came home the moment we could. The Salt House began as my grandmother's fishing cottage; we rebuilt it slowly, keeping her doorstep and her view.
We're the WhatsApp on your phone and the hamper on your counter. Ask us for the hidden sea pool at low tide, the fisherman who sells from his boat on Thursdays, and the table at The Mermaid nobody's told the internet about.
"We host the way we wish hotels felt — present when you need us, invisible when you don't."
14 · The Tide Letter
Exclusive direct-booking discounts,
four letters a year.
Secret off-season weeks, first refusal on cancellations, and nothing else. Ever.
No spam, unsubscribe anytime. Privacy respected.
The House
Five bedrooms.
One horizon.
Cedar, lime plaster and glass on the headland above Porthgwen — rebuilt in 2023 around one idea: every room should know where the sea is.
The house works in layers. Sociable and open where you gather; hushed and linen-soft where you sleep.
The ground floor is one long, light-filled room — kitchen at the heart, dining for twelve, and a sunken snug around the wood-burner. Sliding glass opens the whole southern wall to the terrace, so summer meals drift outside without anyone deciding they should.
Upstairs, four bedrooms look over the water; on the ground floor, The Dune suite offers step-free comfort with an accessible wet room. Hallways are wide, thresholds are level, and the housekeeping is hotel-grade — without ever feeling like a hotel.
265m²Internal space
10Guests in beds
5Bedrooms
4Bathrooms
2023Full rebuild
180°Ocean aspect
Sleeping
The rooms.
01 · The Lookout
360° tour availableThe Lookout · master suite
The whole top floor. Super-king bed facing the picture window, freestanding bath in the room, walk-in shower, dressing area and a writing desk with the best view in the house.
Super-kingEn-suite + bathFull ocean28 m²
02 · The Dune
The Dune · garden suite
Ground floor, step-free from the drive. King bed in sage and oat linen, garden doors, and an accessible wet room with grab rails and a fold-down seat.
KingWet roomAccessible22 m²
03 · The Gull
The Gull
King bed (zip-and-link — happily twins on request), window seat over the cove, shared use of the limestone bath house across the landing.
King / twinsSea view18 m²
04–05 · Sail & Wick
The Sail & The Wick
A calm king room in dune tones, and the cabin bunk room — two full-size singles, ship's ladders, reading lamps and a porthole the children will fight over.
King + bunksKids' favourite16 + 12 m²
Floor Plans
How it fits together.
Ground floor · 148 m²
First & second floor · 117 m²
Plans indicative, not to scale. Full measured plans are in the digital guidebook you receive after booking.
Outside
The terrace is
the second house.
South-west facing and sheltered by the headland, the terrace holds the cedar hot tub, a kamado grill, the outdoor kitchen and a dining table for twelve under festoon lights. Below it, the wild garden runs to the coast path gate.
The fire pit sits in its own stone circle with driftwood benches — logs, kindling and marshmallow forks provided, obviously.
Cedar hot tub · seats 7
Fire pit circle · logs included
Kamado grill & outdoor kitchen
Beach store · boards & wetsuit rinse
Wild garden · enclosed for dogs
Coast path gate · straight to the cove
Dusk · 38°C
The fire circle
Ready when you are.
Gallery
Light, linen & sea.
Forty-eight frames from the house and the cove — drone, interiors, and the blue hour between.
Photography: licensed stock imagery (Unsplash) standing in for the commissioned shoot — captions mark the final shot list.
Availability & Rates
Choose your tide.
Live calendar, transparent nightly pricing, instant confirmation. Tap arrival, then departure.
Seasons & rates
| Season | When | Nightly | Min stay |
|---|---|---|---|
| Low | Nov – Mar | £395 | 3 nights |
| Mid | Apr – May · Sep – Oct | £495 | 3 nights |
| High | June · early July · half terms | £595 | 4 nights |
| Peak | Mid July – Aug · Christmas & NY | £745 | 5 nights |
Stay 7+ nights · 10% off
Direct saving vs OTA ≈ 15%
Dogs £25 each / stay
Things To Do
The Porthgwen edit.
Twelve things worth leaving the hot tub for — chosen by your hosts, tested on every guest who's asked.
Porthgwen today sample data
21°
Sunny, light offshore breeze
Sea 17° · UV high · sunset 21:24
Sea 17° · UV high · sunset 21:24
Sat22°
Sun23°
Mon20°
Tue21°
Wed19°
Tide times · Porthgwen Cove
High water06:425.8 m
Low water · sea pool reveals12:580.9 m
High water19:116.0 m
Best swimming two hours either side of high water. Sample data — live feed connects at launch.
Porthgwen Beach
3 min walkBeach walks & wild swims
Your cove. White sand, gin-clear water, and a low-tide sea pool cut into the rocks on the southern end.
Gwithan Sands
12 min driveSurfing
Consistent beach break for learners and long-boarders. Porthgwen Surf School does private family lessons; boards and wetsuits live in our beach store.
The Mermaid
8 min walkRestaurants
The Mermaid for day-boat fish over the harbour wall; The Wreckers for Sunday lunch; Sennen's chippy eaten on the sea wall, always.
Driftwood Coffee
Village · 8 minCoastal cafés
Driftwood for flat whites and saffron buns; the bakery queue moves fast and is worth it. Hot chocolate shack on the beach in winter.
Under sail · Trevern
10 min driveBoat trips & seal spotting
Evening mackerel trips, seal colonies off Gull Point, and — on the luckiest days — dolphins riding the bow wave.
The coast path
From the gateHeadland & national trails
The South West Coast Path runs through our garden gate. North to the lighthouse (90 min round), south to the smugglers' cove (half day, take a picnic).
St Aubyn's Market
15 min driveLocal markets
Saturday mornings: bread, cheese, pottery and the man who smokes his own mackerel. Go early, buy more than you planned.
Polgwidden Vineyard
25 min driveWine tasting
Cornwall's slate-soil sparkling, tasted on a terrace above the vines. The tour ends in the cellar; the taxi is a good idea.
Trevern Links
18 min driveGolf
A proper links — dunes, sea wind and greens that break toward the Atlantic. Guests get member rates on weekdays.
Trevern quay
10 min driveFishing
Wrasse and pollock off the rocks, mackerel from the quay at dusk, or a half-day charter for the serious. Rods in the boot room.
Pendra Head
30 min driveNational parks & gardens
Sub-tropical valley gardens running down to a private beach, and moorland tors with 360° views for the leggier afternoons.
Run-wild hours
3 min walkFamily days
Rock-pooling at low tide, crabbing lines off the harbour, pizza night at the fire pit, and the bunk-room cinema when it rains.
A Perfect Day
If you only have one.
Swim before breakfast
High tide at the cove, then coffee on the terrace while your hair dries.
The path north
Coast path to the lighthouse — seals at Gull Point if the sea is calm.
Lunch at The Mermaid
Whatever the day boats landed. Ask for the harbour-wall table.
Slow afternoon
Rock pools with the children, or the vineyard terrace without them.
Fire pit supper
Kamado lit, local mackerel, marshmallows for negotiating bedtimes.
Hot tub, stars
The Milky Way is genuinely visible here. The tub is at 38°. Goodnight.
House Rules
Gentle house notes.
Few rules, kindly meant — they keep the house lovely and the neighbours friendly.
4:00 pmCheck-in from
10:00 amCheck-out by
10:00 pmQuiet outdoors after
10 guestsMaximum occupancy
Please do
- Treat the house as yours — cook, gather, light the fire, fill the tub.
- Bring up to two dogs (£25 each per stay) — beds and towels are ready.
- Celebrate — birthdays, reunions and small weddings are welcome by arrangement.
- Use the beach store: boards, wetsuit rinse, buckets, windbreaks.
- Message us any hour on WhatsApp — we're ten minutes away.
- Recycle — bins are labelled and collected Thursdays.
Please don't
- Smoke or vape indoors — the fire pit circle is the smoking spot.
- Exceed ten guests overnight, or host events beyond your booked party without asking first.
- Play amplified music outdoors after 10pm — sound carries across the cove.
- Let dogs on the beds or upstairs — downstairs is their kingdom.
- Use candles or fireworks — festoons and the fire pit give better light anyway.
- Leave the hot tub cover off overnight — the heron finds it fascinating.
Safety
Smoke and CO alarms in every zone, fire blanket and extinguisher in the kitchen, first-aid kit in the boot room, defibrillator at the village hall (4 min walk).
Security deposit
A £500 pre-authorisation is held (not charged) two days before arrival and released within five days of departure — the standard for homes of this kind.
Sustainability
Air-source heating, solar array, B-Corp housekeeping products and a no-single-use-plastics larder. The sea is the whole point; we act like it.
Guest Reviews
In their words.
4.98 across 214 verified stays on Google, Airbnb and Booking.com — and rising.
Reviews shown are sample editorial content for this prototype; live Google & Airbnb feeds connect at launch.
Location
Getting here is
half the unwind.
The Salt House, Porthgwen Cove, near Trevern, Cornwall TR19. Precise pin and gate codes arrive with your booking.
Stylised map — the live site embeds Google Maps here.
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Travel times
By sleeper trainNight Riviera from London Paddington to Trevern; wake up to the sea. We'll arrange a taxi for the last 12 minutes.London 5h30 (asleep) · Exeter 2h40
By carA30 to the Trevern turning, then follow the cove lane to the gate. Private parking for three cars plus 7 kW EV charging.London 4h50 · Bristol 3h10 · Exeter 2h
By airNewquay (NQY) has daily London and Manchester connections. Hire cars at the terminal, or we can arrange a driver.Airport to house 45 min
Once you're hereBeach 3 min · village bakery 8 min · harbour 10 min · The Mermaid 8 min — all on foot. You may not touch the car keys again.
FAQ
Everything, answered.
Booking & payment
We reply personally, usually within a few hours and never more than a day. Nothing is charged when you send a request — your dates are simply held while we confirm.
Yes — once we confirm availability you pay a 25% deposit by secure payment link or bank transfer, and the balance is due eight weeks before arrival (we send a reminder). Booking within eight weeks? Full payment applies.
Full refund up to 30 days before arrival; 50% up to 14 days; non-refundable inside 14 days (we'll always try to re-let and refund what we recover). Date changes are free up to 14 days ahead, subject to availability.
Platforms add guest service fees of up to 14% and charge us commission on top. Direct, both disappear — we split the saving with you, which is why our direct rate is guaranteed the lowest anywhere.
Arrival & departure
Self check-in from 4pm by smart lock — your personal code arrives by SMS that morning. Prefer a welcome in person? Say so and one of us will be on the doorstep.
Outside peak weeks, usually yes — early bag-drop is almost always fine, and late checkout (to 1pm, £95) is released 72 hours ahead when the changeover allows.
On the gated drive — space for three cars plus the EV bay (7 kW, charged at cost via the app). The lane is narrow for the last half-mile; the guidebook includes a video of it.
The stay
Very. Travel cot, highchair, stair gates, bed rails, plastic tableware, beach toys and a PlayStation in the bunk room. The garden is enclosed; the sea, of course, is not — the cove is three minutes' walk with no road to cross.
Two dogs maximum, £25 each per stay. Downstairs only and not on furniture. Enclosed garden, outdoor rinse, towels in the boot room, and the beach is dog-friendly before 10am in season, all day October–April.
The Dune suite is step-free from the drive with a level-access wet room (grab rails, fold-down seat). Ground-floor living is all on one level. The terrace has a shallow ramp; the coast path beyond the gate is uneven. Ask us anything specific — we'd rather over-answer.
Celebrations for up to ten guests are warmly welcome by prior arrangement — see the Celebrations page for chef, styling and photography add-ons. Amplified music ends at 10pm outdoors; the neighbours are lovely and we intend to keep them that way.
Sourdough from the village bakery, Cornish butter and cheese, smoked mackerel, local eggs, a bottle from Polgwidden vineyard, and dog biscuits if four-legged guests are expected. Dietary notes at checkout are honoured.
Still wondering about something?
Celebrations & Gatherings
The occasions house.
Ten people, one long table, the Atlantic doing the décor. Milestones deserve better than a function room.
Milestone birthdays
Long lunch outside, chef in the kitchen, fireside speeches — 40th to 70th, we've hosted them all.
Family reunions
Three generations, five bedrooms, one washing-up rota. The bunk room settles the cousins.
Hen weekends
The thoughtful kind — private chef, coastal sauna trip, vineyard afternoon. Prosecco optional, hot tub not.
Corporate retreats
Offsites for teams of ten: 900 Mbps fibre, a proper table to think around, and the sea to reset by.
Micro-weddings
Ceremony on the headland, dinner for ten at the long table. Small on numbers, unreasonably big on feeling.
New Year
Fire pit, fizz, and the first swim of the year for the brave. Books out a year ahead — join the list.
Add-on Services
We set the stage.
Private chef
£220Menus built around the day boats and the walled-garden veg. Dinner from £68pp; weekend residencies available.
Decoration & styling
£180Florals, table styling and festoons by a local studio — dressed before you arrive, gone before you leave.
Photography
£350Two golden hours with a Cornwall editorial photographer. Gallery delivered within the week.
Feast & BBQ hire
£140Whole-fish kamado feast kit with a pitmaster to run it, or self-drive with our marinades and playlists.
Cellar & welcome drinks
£95Polgwidden sparkling, Cornish gin bar or zero-proof spritzes, iced and waiting on arrival.
Prices from; final quotes with your booking. Add services at checkout or any time before arrival.
Good to know
Maximum guests10 overnight · 12 day
Amplified musicIndoors after 10pm
Quiet outdoorsFrom 10:00 pm
ConfettiPetals only, please
SuppliersVetted local book
Event agreementSigned at booking
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Occupancy · next 12 mo84%+6% vs last year
Average nightly rate£545+£38 vs last year
Direct revenue YTD£186,40071% booked direct
OTA fees avoided£27,960kept by guests & house
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