Bickham House

Designation:
All on Devon Local List
Type:
  • Gardens
  • Parkland
Period/Century:
  • C18
Post Code:
EX6 7XJ
Parish:
Kenn
Local Authority:
Teignbridge
OS Grid Ref:
SX 915 844
Map no.:
Landranger 192
Features
  • Walled Garden
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 asymmetrical additions to the entrance front: a colonnaded veranda running around two sides of the 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 a lake.

Listed Buildings

Bickham House listed Grade II*, outbuildings 10m. north and walls to walled garden, piers, railings, gate piers and gates listed Grade II.

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

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