Post Code:
EX6 7XJ
Statutory Designation:
Bickham House listed Grade II*, outbuildings 10m. north and walls to walled garden, piers, railings, gate piers and gates listed Grade II.
District:
Teignbridge
Parish:
Kenn
Grid ref:
SX 915 844
Map no:
Landranger 192
Type of site:
C18 Parkland
Description:
Bickham House is a small mansion attractively set in its own 5 acre park in a peaceful wooded valley.The early C18 house of the Short family, disguised by early C19 asymmetricaladditions to the entrance front: a colonnaded veranda running around two sides ofthe house, and a large projecting bowed dining room, with service wing beyond. Bickham House has lawns, mature trees and shrubs; naturalised bulbs and herbaceous borders. There is also a conservatory, small parterre, pond garden; an impressive 1 acre walled kitchen garden and alake.
Conservation Area:
No
Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty:
No
Area of Great Landscape Value:
Yes
Nature Conservation Zone:
No
Coastal Preservation Area:
No
National Park:
No
Scheduled:
No
Evidence:
MapView plan, scale 1:2500
Ordnance Survey 2nd edition, 1906, scale 6” (WCSL sheet 92 SW)
MapView plan, scale 1:2500
Getmapping aerial photograph 1:2500
Historic Maps c1880 scale 1:2500
References:
Cherry & Pevsner: The Buildings of England – Devon, 1989: 513
S Pugsley: Devon Gardens – An Historical Survey, 1994: 75,175
T Gray: The Garden History of Devon, 1995: 42,43
Status:
on Devon Gazetteer