National Trust Castle Drogo

Website http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-vh/w-visits/w-findaplace/w-castledrogo/

Classification Historic Building

DescriptionThe 'last castle to be built in England', dramatically situated above the Teign Gorge. Castle Drogo is a country house near Drewsteignton, Devon, England. It was built in the 1910s and 1920s for Julius Drewe (businessman and founder of the Home and Colonial Stores ) to designs by architect Edwin Lutyens, and is a Grade I listed building.

The granite-built stately home borrows styles of castle building from the medieval and Tudor periods, along with more minimalist contemporary approaches. A notable feature is the encasement of the service staircase, around which the main staircase climbs. Its defensive characteristics are essentially decorative.

The castle has a fine formal garden, designed by Lutyens with planting by Gertrude Jekyll, which contrasts effectively with its striking setting on the edge of Dartmoor. The garden is noted for its rhododendrons and magnolias, herbaceous borders, rose garden, shrub garden and circular croquet lawn.

The property was given to the National Trust in 1974 and was the first 20th-century property the charity acquired.
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The AddressCastle Drogo, Drewsteignton, Exeter, EX6 6PB

Phone01647 433306

DateOct 19, 2006

Contact NameNational Trust

CategoryEngland > Devon
England > Devon > Attractions near Exeter

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