Whiteford House

Whiteford House was an English country house built in 1775 in Stoke Climsland, Cornwall. The house was built by Sir John Call of Whiteford on his return from India.

Call was High Sheriff of Cornwall and MP for Callington and built Whiteford on a grand scale both inside and out. The building was a calendar house, having 52 rooms and 365 windows. The interior was lavishly designed and decorated with elegant staircases and chimney pieces, a fine plaster work boudoir, delicately painted shutters and a room filled with mirrors. The house enjoyed views of Dartmoor and Kit Hill which were complemented by fountains and a walled fruit garden. Call further embellished the view by constructing a neo classical temple, now owned by the Landmark Trust as well as building a mock Civil War fort on the summit of Kit Hill.

Whiteford stayed in the Call family until 1870 when it went briefly to Andrew Montagu and finally into the ownership of the Duchy of Cornwall in 1879. By the turn of the century, the house had suffered a fire and had fallen into disrepair. In 1913, the Duchy ordered its demolition, much of the granite being used for buildings now occupied by nearby Duchy College. However, the servants' quarters of the original house continued to be occupied by Duchy staff until 1968 when the buildings were condemned by death watch beetle. Several of the original buildings and the walled garden remain.

Every July, the grounds of Whiteford House host the Whiteford Music Festival.