• Visit to Shilstone Gardens and Devon Rural Archive Tuesday 29th October 2019 at 11 am
Devon Gardens Trust is devoted to the preservation and enhancement of gardens in the UK county of Devon

Widdicombe House

Statutory Designation: 

House is listed Grade II*; stables 270m. to north west listed Grade II.

District: 
South Hams
Parish: 
Stokenham
Type of site: 
C18 parkland
Conservation Area: 
No
Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty: 
No
Area of Great Landscape Value: 
No
Nature Conservation Zone: 
Yes
Coastal Preservation Area: 
No
National Park: 
No
Scheduled: 
No
Evidence: 
MapView plan, scale 1:2500 Ordnance Survey 2nd edition, 1907, scale 6” (WCSL sheet 137NW) Getmapping aerial photograph 1:250 Historic Maps c1880 scale 1:2500
References: 
Cherry & Pevsner: The Buildings of England – Devon, 1989: 766 S Pugsley: Devon Gardens – An Historical Survey, 1994: 12 T Gray: The Garden History of Devon, 1995: 236-37 D Stroud: Capability Brown, 1975: 244 D&S Lysons: Magna Britannia – Devon, 1822, II: 463
Status: 
on Devon Gazetteer