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Summary

Parkland and gardens at Wembury House, including a salt water lake.

Location

Protected Status

• Listed Building (II*) 1108590: WEMBURY HOUSE
• Listed Building (II) 1108591: GARDEN WALLS AND TWO PAIRS OF GATE PIERS IMMEDIATELY NORTH WEST AND SOUTH EAST OF WEMBURY HOUSE
• Listed Building (II) 1108592: KITCHEN GARDEN WALLS AND GATE PIERS APPROXIMATELY 120 METRES NORTH EAST OF WEMBURY HOUSE
• Listed Building (II*) 1169185: WALL APPROXIMATELY 90 METRES WEST OF WEMBURY HOUSE
• Listed Building (II) 1169193: TWO PAIRS OF GATE PIERS AND LINK WALLS APPROXIMATELY 230 METRES NORTH NORTH EAST OF WEMBURY HOUSE
• SHINE: Historic deerpark and C18th parkland with walled garden and traditional farm buildings and earthworks of two World War II bomb Craters; former field system and Catch (water) meadow, at Wembury House

Other References/Statuses

• SHINE Candidate (Yes)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• LANDSCAPE PARK (XIX - 1801 AD to 1900 AD (Between))

Full description

Ordnance Survey, 1880-1899, First Edition Ordnance 25 inch map (Cartographic). SDV336179.

Map object based on this source.

Devon Gardens Trust, 1999, Devon Local Register, 146 (Un-published). SDV170167.

Devon Gardens Trust, 2013, Devon Gazetteer of Parks and Gardens of Local Interest (Reg/Local list of Historic Parks and Gdns). SDV354335.

Clark, J., 2013, Wembury House (Un-published). SDV358373.

In 1793 Swete passed by Wembury on his way from Plymouth to Modbury. It was then ‘the remains of that famous mansion which was built by Sir John Hele… a magnificent edifice which being situated on an advanced ground near the sea had not only a most delightful prospect but was enriched with every convenience’. He also noted that ‘without doors that there was a noble park, and contiguous to the sea an immense pond which was so constructed as to catch of itself and retain with its walls every sort of fish that frequented the coast’. White (1850) noted that Hele had ‘built here a magnificent mansion, at the cost of £20,000, and enclosed a park, which had a salt water lake, supplied by the tides.

Ordnance Survey, 2015, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV357601.

Map object based on this source.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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