Torpoint mansion moved brick by brick to become Cornish seaside hotel
Torpoint mansion moved brick by brick to become Cornish seaside hotel Torpoint house was dismantled and rebuilt on the coast to become the Whitsand Bay Hotel Updated The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now A mansion was moved brick by brick from a growing Cornish town to be reborn as a seaside hotel more than 100 years ago. Thanckes House in Torpoint, complete with a famed stained glass window, was shifted stone by stone six miles to Portwrinkle. It reopened as the Whitsand Bay Hotel in July 1910 and entertained guests for more than 100 years – before its sad closure in 2018. Thanckes...