Ankorya's History
ANKORYA’s plot was originally carved into the cliffside in the 1930’s by a family who built a small tea hut here. First used as a rustic getaway, and later as a full-time family home - They painstakingly carried every building material down the cliff to build the timber chalet on-site by hand over several generations.
Now, ANKORYA is being shared for the first time in its history by its new owners and caretakers, Roxy & Phil, who have been redecorating and modernizing the chalet since 2023.
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What sets Ankorya apart from the many other chalets located on Whitsand Bay is the incredible privacy enjoyed by having no nearby neighbors and being located far from the road and near to the beach.
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Some more interesting facts about the cliff chalet: ​​
Ankorya is fully solar powered, but with all the luxuries of a home on mains power, even on a cloudy day. Ankorya has 3.3kW of solar panels and a 19kW lithium battery bank. All thanks to the ample Cornish sunshine.
Some of the interior walls in Ankorya were built with salvaged timber from the shipwreck of the cargo vessel Kodima in 2002, which left the sandy beaches of Whitsand Bay littered with massive heaps of timber.
Ankorya sits perched on the cliff directly above the still visible engine boiler of the shipwrecked vessel Chancellor on the beach below. The Chancellor was wrecked in 1934 and bits can still be found below shifting sands.