A family run business selling luxury ice cream made on their farm in picturesque Zennor are being forced to "moo-ve" out of their inaugural parlour after the landlord decided to sell up.

Moomaid of Zennor Ice Cream Parlour was opened by the Griggs family, which makes the ice cream on the family run Tremedda Farm just outside the village, four years ago.

However they announced on Facebook at the weekend that the landlords have put the building they occupy, the Old Wayside Museum, up for sale and they were having to close the parlour.

However they said they were looking to "scoop" their business back into the village as soon as possible.

Posting on their Facebook page they said: "This September we will have to close the Moomaid of Zennor Ice Cream Parlour in Zennor village as the landlords have put the premises up for sale.

"Obviously we are very sad to lose the café – we have put a lot of work into it over the past four years and have been blown away by the support from our loyal customers. It is especially hard given it's in Moomaid’s home village and was, we hope, a nice addition for our small community.

"Moving forward … We are working on ideas to get scooping Moomaid again in our home village and hope to have news for you very soon."

They say the last day of opening will be Sunday, September 24.

The company does however have three other parlours that it has opened in Porthtowan, St Just and St Ives.

The company is a small family business which makes luxury Cornish ice cream and sorbet in its purpose-built ice cream parlour on the Farm in West Cornwall.

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The farm has been handed down through four generations to Bridget who farms it today with her son Nicky, alongside brother Rob who runs the ice cream business.

The remaining four siblings make up the rest of the Moomaid team. Tremedda is farmed by a traditional and sustainable method of farming. This allows the cows to be housed throughout the winter and out from February to October weather depending.

Tremedda Farm has been in the family since 1905, when great, great, grandmother Elsie Griggs persuaded her parents to move down from Scotland so she could be a farmer. The company's ice cream factory was the farm’s original milking parlour in the early 1900s when cows were milked by hand.