Devon Historic HousesA 16-sided house was built on the instructions of two spinster cousins, Jane and Mary Parminter The interior includes a feather frieze and shell-encrusted gallery which, due to its fragility, can only be viewed on closed-circuit television. Summer Lane, Exmouth, EX8 5BD Tel: 01395 265514 A 1822 house, built in the neo-classical style. Inside are a number of collections brought together by Miss Rosalie Chichester who owned the house. These include shells, costumes, model ships & pewter. Arlington, nr Barnstaple, EX31 4LP Tel: 01271 850296 Email Given to the National Trust in 1938 by Mrs A. H. Woolner, the house, which has an east front and chapel, is still lived in and managed by her family. Newton Abbot TQ12 6BN Tel:01626 354513 Email Built in a stream-fed valley on a stretch of the National Trust protected South Devon coastline, the house was designed in 1925 for Rupert and Lady Dorothy D’Oyly Carte, who created its luxuriant garden. Coleton, Kingswear, Dartmouth, TQ6 0EQ Tel:01803 752466 Email Natural historical gardens and woodland which surround the ancestral home of the Kennaway family. The original gardens were set out by Capability Brown and have been brought to life by Land artist and television gardener Ivan Hicks. Escot Park - Ottery St Mary - Devon - EX11 1LU Tel:01404 822188 Email Built for the Acland family in 1778, the house is furnished as a home. The
Paulise de Bush collection of 18th- to 20th-century costume is displayed in period rooms. There is an introductory
exhibition in the stable courtyard, a Victorian laundry and a chapel The work of designer William Burges. The interiors combine medieval with
Victorian decoration, and the smoking and billiard rooms, boudoir and drawing room all give an insight into the
country house life which revolved around the Heathcoat-Amory family. A small medieval cob house, with a painting of St Andrew decorating a cross-passage screen
A stone-built and partially rendered building beneath thatch, was the last traditional working bakery in Devon. The old baking equipment has been preserved in the baking room and the rest of the building now serves as a tea-room. The water-powered Manor Mill probably supplied the flour for the bakery. Branscombe, Seaton EX12 3DB Tel: 01392 881691 Stands high above the River Plym in a wooded landscaped park. The house, with its original contents, was largely created between the 1740s and 1820s by three generations of the Parker family. Plympton, Plymouth PL7 1UH Tel: 01752 333500 Email An historic house lived in by the family who have owned it and shared their history with it for over 500 years. This historic stone house is set in 6 acres of varied gardens. Sand, Sidbury, Sidmouth, Devon, EX10 0QN Tel:01395 597230 Email Begun in 1380, completed in the late 16th century, then partly demolished in the late 18th
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