Sidbury Manor is a privately owned 19th-century country mansion situated at

Sidbury Sidbury is a large village north of Sidmouth on the A375 road in Devon, England. In 2011 the built-up area had a population of 457. In 1951 the civil parish had a population of 2,507. It is situated on the River Sid, which rises at Crowpits C ...

Sidmouth Sidmouth () is a town on the English Channel in Devon, South West England, southeast of Exeter. With a population of 12,569 in 2011, it is a tourist resort and a gateway to the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site. A large part of the town has ...

, East Devon. It is a

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. Built in 1879, the country house is a red brick building with a slate roof, including two towers, one square and the other octagonal. It is owned by the Cave baronets.

House

The original house at Sidbury was built in 1633, and was owned by the Guppy family. When the house burned down in the middle of the 19th century, the estate was sold to Cave family, who still own the house today. The present house was built in 1879, designed by David Brandon. It is a 2-story redbrick country house, cornered with

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quoins Quoins ( or ) are masonry blocks at the corner of a wall. Some are structural, providing strength for a wall made with inferior stone or rubble, while others merely add aesthetic detail to a corner. According to one 19th century encyclopedia, t ...

. The roof is slate, with Jacobean chimneys. The entrance is on the eastern aspect of the building, which also includes an octagonal tower. The tower has gargoyles in the shapes of dogs and griffins, as well as a lead roof topped by a weather vane. The entrance has a stone gable topped with a lion and

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. There is a 2 bay arcade with diamond block piers and 4 arches, which is then repeated in the conservatory which has a stone faced front. The conservatory's roof is supported by cast iron columns. The house has a second square tower with a

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, and second weathervane. The house was designated Grade II

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status on 12 November 1973. David Cave of Cleve Hill, Gloucestershire, acquired land in and about fashionable Sidmouth in the mid-1800s. His son Rt Hon Stephen Cave was

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for New Shoreham 1859 -1880 and was twice

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. Cave who died in 1880 never lived there but bequeathed the house and the estate of some 3800 acres to his younger brother Charles who in 1896 was created the first of the Cave baronets.

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