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Menabilly House

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• Vicinity: Menabilly

• Travel Genus: Sight
• Sight Category: Building

• As Noted In: English National Heritage Listed II Plus, Historic England

Menabilly, the former home of English author, Daphne du Maurier, is the inspiration for Manderley the country house owned by Maximilian de Winter in the novel Rebecca. - AsNotedIn

We came to the lodge at Four Turnings, as we had been instructed, and opened the creaking iron gates with the bluff and false courage common to the trespasser. The lodge was deserted. No one peered at us from the windows.

Grey, still, silent. The windows were shuttered fast, white and barred. Ivy covered the grey walls and threw tendrils round the windows. It was early still, and the house was sleeping. But later, when the sun was high, there would come no wreath of smoke from the chimneys. The shutters would not be thrown back, nor the doors unfastened. No voices would sound within those darkened rooms. Menabilly would sleep on, like the sleeping beauty of the fairy tale, until someone should come to wake her