En un regard
Le château en bref
Carn Brea Castle is a small castellated building perched on the granite boulders at the summit of Carn Brea, the hill overlooking Redruth and Camborne, beside the Dunstanville monument. Its battlemented silhouette makes it one of the most visible landmarks in the Cornish mining landscape.
According to tradition, the site held a chapel founded in 1379, probably dedicated to St Michael, and the listing entry allows that some of the masonry may be medieval. Most of the building, however, results from 18th- and 19th-century rebuilding by the Bassets of Tehidy, who turned it into a hunting lodge with the appearance of a castle. An 1898 lease required a beacon to be kept there for shipping.
Left derelict between the 1950s and the 1970s, the building was restored by a private individual from 1975 to 1980 and then converted into a restaurant during the 1980s. It remains privately owned.