In the short story Ingots of Gold, Pol House is a house in Polperran. John Newman had taken a lease of the house, and Raymond West went there to visit him over Whitsun. Raymond West describes the as charming, situated high up on the cliffs and with a good view of the sea. Part of the house was some three or four hundred years old and a modern wing had been added. Over the door hung a perfect reproduction of a Spanish galleon with all sail set--presumably placed there to symbolise Newman's obsession with finding the wreck of the sunken Spanish galleon Juan Fernandez.