Coleton Fishacre

Coleton Fishacre
House at Coleton Fishacre

Coleton Fishacre is a property consisting of a 24-acre (97,000 m2) garden and a house in the Arts and Crafts style, situated in Kingswear, Devon, England. The property has been in the ownership of the National Trust since 1982.

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The house

The house at Coleton Fishacre was built as a country home for Rupert D'Oyly Carte and his wife, Lady Dorothy Carte, between 1925 and 1926.[1] The architect was Oswald Milne, a former assistant to Edwin Lutyens, who designed the house with the principles of the Arts and Crafts movement in mind: simplicity of design and quality of craftsmanship. The influence of this older movement notwithstanding, the house is influenced by its own time, especially in its Art Deco interior. The structure is built of local slate rubble with a Delabole slate roof.[2] The design has been twice featured in Country Life magazine: 31 May 1930 and 25 October 2007, the latter of which shows full colour photos of the house (exterior and interior) and the gardens. The property runs down to the sea, where there are some outbuildings.[2]

Although built as a country home, Lady Dorothy lived in the house as her primary residence by the later 1920s.[2] After the Cartes' divorce in 1941, their daughter, Bridget D'Oyly Carte, took over the house, which her father, who lived in London, would visit for long weekends. She sold the house after his death.[3]

The garden

Garden at Coleton Fishacre

The garden at Coleton Fishacre runs down a narrow combe from the house to the sea at Pudcombe Cove. The garden, originally planted by Lady Dorothy, features rare and exotic plants, some of which are unusual in their ability to grow outside a tropical climate due to the proximity of the Gulf Stream to this part of the coast of Devon. Lady Dorothy was noted for retrieving exotic plant species for the garden during her journeys abroad. The Cartes employed a staff of six to maintain the garden, compared with a staff of four to run the house.[4]

The National Trust

The Coleton Fishacre was acquired by the National Trust in 1982 as part of its Project Neptune, with an eye to completing the South West Coast Path in that area. The garden was opened to the public immediately, while the house was let to tenants. The Trust finally opened the house to the public in 1999.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Coleton Fishacre at The National Trust website, accessed 12 November 2009
  2. ^ a b c Coleton Fishacre: National Monuments Record at PastScape, accessed 23 August 2010
  3. ^ See the Country Life magazine, 25 October 2007 feature on the house and gardens.
  4. ^ Kennedy, Maev. "An ideal cove", The Guardian, 15 May 1999, p. G7

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Coordinates: 50°20′48″N 3°32′05″W / 50.346707°N 3.534766°W / 50.346707; -3.534766


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