Cross House Hotel
Padstow, Cornwall

Cross House Hotel is a charming Georgian house with a Grade II listing, set in the beautiful Cornish harbour town of Padstow. It was owned by John Tredwen, the last of the local sailing ship builders. The house has been a hotel for many years and is now owned by Nick and Cazz, who fell in love with Padstow and Cross House, after staying as guests themselves for many years. We will endeavour to provide every comfort and hope you will choose to stay with us at Cross House Hotel.

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Padstow is a small town on the north coast of Cornwall, United Kingdom, approximately 14 miles north and east up the coast from Newquay, at the mouth of the River Camel. Traditionally a fishing port, it is now a popular tourist destination: although some of its former fishing fleet remains, it is mainly a yachting haven on a dramatic coastline with few easily navigable harbours. Note the old sailor's maxim: "Twixt Hartland Point and Padstow Bay is a sailor's grave by night or day." This reputation is in part due to the rocky coastline but also to the alleged tradition of "wreckers" – wreckers being locals who would use lanterns to lure ships into coming too close to the shore and wrecking themselves on the rocks, before stealing their cargo. Padstow itself is a safe harbour; however, it is notorious for shipwrecks due to the dangerous sandbar called "Doom Bar" in the Padstow estuary.