Purple spiked alliums

👀 Coffee time ☕️☕️🌺 -
#ColetonFishacre #Devon

Allium sphaerocephalon with 100 year old #Arts&Crafts house in background -
📷 13.07.2025

#elevensestime

A lady with parasol is being punted by a man.

Two ladies are being chauffeured in a car.

#ColetonFishacre #Devon

The bathroom tiles in the #Arts&Crafts house at Coleton Fishacre are by #EdwardBawden

They are a whimsical take on life for the wealthy in the 1920s. The house itself was completed in 1927.

#TilesOnTuesday

Canna lily, Crocosmia Lucifer, Achillea and others giving a vibrant, colourful mix in a flower border.

👀 Coffee time ☕️☕️🌺 -
#ColetonFishacre #Devon

Colourful border with 100 year old #Arts&Crafts house in background -
📷 13.07.2025

#elevensestime

On my last day in #Brixham for this trip, today I walked from Kingswear back to Brixham with a stop-off for lunch at @nationaltrust.org.uk #ColetonFishacre (where the flower borders are looking fabulous). & then wrapped things up with a last swim from Breakwater Beach; too many jellyfish for me tho’

The Savoy Cocktail Book

Single bed with 30s navy & white dress

Black bookcase with books & bright vases

Octagonal bookcase with Penguin book spines

The things I liked best?

The books…and this little guest room

#ColetonFishacre

I walked down down down the valley past tree ferns & bamboo (as per) to the SW coastal path: below is Pudcombe Cove but it’s *very* steep

And up, up, up above a massive eucalyptus

A very lovely place. I’d hate to drive there in summer/school hols😏

@nationaltrust.bsky.social

#ColetonFishacre

Mute #ColetonFishacre if you’ve had enough 😂

The valley garden is steep & with its own microclimate as is often the case along the South Devon & Cornish coast

1930s dining table

1920s cocktail cabinet with “The Savoy Cocktail Book”

Art Deco cream chair

Sunlit room with sofa & cocktail cabinet

The dining table but then my favourite room- the cocktail room. Singapore Sling, dahling Geraldine?

#ColetonFishacre

Red & white checked kitchen table

1920s ingredients in old tins & jars eg “Cloves”

Servants laid up tea table with fruit cake

Mangle

The kitchen

My aunt remembers her aunt using such a mangle…

I especially liked the servants’ room where they would eat their meals & “relax” (though for the time they were well-treated apparently)

#ColetonFishacre

Two single beds with matching pale pink quilted silk covers

A cigarette ashtray & mock cigarette

A very low bath with white times & black bottom

Towel rails & armchair

Such low baths!

But the house had central heating & the radiators still work

The strange thing..growing up in the 70s with elderly relatives I seem to remember such bedspreads, such dressing table bits

#ColetonFishacre

A gentleman’s room

The family had a tidal pool down at Pudcombe Cove. I think @chrisworthing.bsky.social would suit the woollen bathing suit

#ColetonFishacre

1920s dressing table accoutrements for the genteel lady …violet oil…paint for varicose veins….an original cabinet

I love the Art Deco look
#ColetonFishacre

#ColetonFishacre

There are 2 bathrooms & a loo along the corridor but each room had a sink & “toilette”

Coleton Fishacre House - a grey dlate house built on angles with a courtyard

A 1920s lounge with green armchairs & sofa, a baby grand, a pair of shoes & silk gloves left draped

Art Deco door & stairs fanning out in semi/circles

Fireplace with silk evening gloves

House first. Built by the D’Oyley-Cartes’ - designed by Oswald Milne, a student of Lutyens.

I *loved* & felt Hercule Poirot might appear at any moment…

The privacy money could buy you….

#ColetonFishacre

I will be uploading photos of #ColetonFishacre house & gardens soon….please mute that hashtag if not your thing (a 1920s National Trust property nr Dartmouth)

Choppy waters on the east-facing coastline, viewed from National Trust #ColetonFishacre, South #Devon.

Upclose at Coleton Fishacre Sometimes, when travelling, one comes across a site that is a gem. We have a membership of the National Trust in Australia which gives us re...

Reminiscing on a recent jaunt to #ColetonFishAcre #Travel #UK #blogging
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Coleton Fishacre is a 1920s country house in Devon, owned by the National Trust. The house was originally the retreat of the D'Oyly Carte family, of Gilbert and Sullivan fame. #ColetonFishacre #NationalTrust #wessexattractions

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