Lupton Park, Torbay, England

The following is from the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest.  

A late 18th century parkland landscape and mid 19th century formal gardens associated with a late 18th century mansion remodelled in the mid 19th century. A mid 20th century country house designed by Oswald Milne is set in mid 20th century formal gardens within the park.

DESCRIPTION

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

Lupton Park is situated about 2 kilometres west of the coastal town of Brixham, and 0.5 kilometres south-east of the village of Churston Ferrers on the south side of the A3022 road from Paignton to Brixham. The site occupies about 120 hectares and comprises about 2 hectares of formal and terraced gardens to the east, south-west and north-west of Lupton House, and about 108 hectares of parkland and woodland. The site is bounded to the north by a belt of deciduous woodland adjoining the Brixham road, while elsewhere boundaries are formed by traditional hedge banks which separate parkland and plantations from the surrounding agricultural land. Lying some 2 kilometres inland from Tor Bay, Lupton House stands at the confluence of steep-sided valleys which run west and south from the House. The upper slopes of the valleys are generally wooded and enjoy long views across the park to Tor Bay from a series of 18th and 19th century carriage drives.

REFERENCES

D and S Lysons, Magna Britannia: Devon II, (1822), p 72

W Hyett, A Description of the Watering Places on the South-east Coast of Devon (1830), p 103

W White, History, Gazetteer and Directory of Devonshire (1850), pp 424-425

Country Life, 125 (26 March 1959), pp 661-663

B Cherry and N Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Devon (1989), p 833

T Gray, The Garden History of Devon An Illustrated Guide to Sources (1995), pp 142-143

Lupton Park A Survey of the Landscape, (Debois Landscape Survey Group 1996)

Maps

B Donn, A Map of the County of Devon, 1765

C and J Greenwood, A Map of the County of Devon, surveyed 1825-1826

Tithe map for Brixham parish, 1838 (Devon Record Office)

Tithe map for Churston Ferrers parish, 1839 (Devon Record Office)

OS Surveyor's drawing, 2" to 1 mile, 1803-1804 (Devon Record Office)

OS Old Series 1" to 1 mile, published 1809

OS 6" to 1 mile: 1st edition surveyed 1865

    2nd edition revised 1904, published 1907

    1938 edition

OS 25" to 1 mile: 1st edition surveyed 1862, published 1865

    1945 edition

Illustrations

J Swete, View of Lupton House, 1793 (564M, F4, 140), (Devon Record Office)

Archival items

Journal of the Rev J Swete, 1793 (564, F4), (Devon Record Office)

Buller family papers and accounts, late C18 and early C19 (2450), (Devon Record Office)

F W L Stockdale, MS History of Devon, early C19 (Devon and Exeter Institution)

Description written: November 1998

Amended: June 1999

Edited: July 2000