Designation:
All on Devon Local List
Type:
- Parkland
Parish:
South Milton
Local Authority:
South Hams
OS Grid Ref:
SX 690 422
Map no.:
Landranger 202
Description:
Horswell House is a country house 1720-40 with an earlier wing. Stucco stone walls to front renge with a double hipped slate roof to the front and a gabled end to the rear wing. The house is a good example of its period with a very unspoilt exterior. The seat of the Roopes, inherited by the Ilberts in 1761. A good C18 double-pile house, symmetrical five bays, two storeys with dormers. Shell-hooded porch. To the right of the house a section of garden wall extends a short distance and terminates in stone gate piers with ball finials.
Listed Buildings
Horswell House is listed Grade II
References
Cherry & Pevsner: The Buildings of England – Devon, 1989: 748
