Bovey Castle (formerly the Manor House Hotel)

Designation:
All on Devon Local List
Type:
  • Parkland
Period/Century:
  • C20
Post Code:
TQ13 8RE
Parish:
North Bovey
Local Authority:
Teignbridge
OS Grid Ref:
SX 731 844
Map no.:
Landranger 201
Description:

Bovey Castle is a lavish neo-Elizabethan mansion built in 1906-7 by Detmar Blow for W F D Smith, later the second Viscount Hambledon. The house is comparable to Castle Drogo in scale, but without the sparkle of Lutyens. It was extended in the 1930s. The restrained garden front is magnificently set above terraces overlooking the lake and river. The site is now an hotel.The carriage drive leads from the entrance gates and lodge across the parkland to the house. The grounds are now a golf course with mown grass but retainng the essential parkland landscape character with clumps of trees.

Bovey Castle is of national significance and merits adding to the Historic England Register at Grade II.

Listed Buildings

House, gazebo, gateway arch and lodges listed Grade II*

References

Cherry & Pevsner:  The Buildings of England – Devon, 1989:  599-600
T Gray:  The Garden History of Devon, 1995: 149

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