Trereife House

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Ruth visits Tim Le Grice and his family, owners of Trereife House in Penzance, Cornwall. After inheriting the crumbling manor and its huge debts in 1986, Tim has spent the past 25 years trying to turn around the fortunes of his family home. But Trereife is a house in peril, falling down at the seams.

While holding down a full time job as a solicitor, Tim has been working 15 hours a day trying new business ventures to give them a much needed cash injection. The house is making a loss, falling apart, and the bank is close to forcing a sale.

Ruth steps in and soon discovers that part of the problem is Tim's misguided business ideas - a failed zoo, a gypsy caravan theme park, a restaurant, and a dairy farm. Ruth encourages Trereife's potential for a B&B with space outdoors for Mongolian dome tents. She also gets Tim's daughter Georgina to organise a literary and poetry event. But will Tim relinquish control and give his Georgina a chance?