Haldon House

Haldon House, east front, 1830 engraving. Haldon Belvedere is visible on the hilltop behind left.
North Pavilions, former stables block and a remnant of the house,[1] now the Lord Haldon Hotel. The main house was set back to the left (south).

Haldon House (pronounced: "Hol-don") on the eastern side of the Haldon Hills in the parishes of Dunchideock and Kenn,[2] near Exeter in Devon, England, was a large Georgian country house largely demolished in the 1920s.[1] The surviving north wing of the house, comprising the entrance front of the stable block, consists of two cuboid lodges linked by a screen pierced by a Triumphal Arch,[3] with later additions,[1] and serves today as the "Lord Haldon Hotel".[4] The house was originally flanked by two such paired pavilions, as is evident from 19th century engravings.

  1. ^ a b c Cherry & Pevsner, p.513
  2. ^ Risdon, Tristram (died 1640), Survey of Devon, 1811 edition, London, 1811, with 1810 Additions, Names of the Noblemen and Principal Gentlemen in the County of Devon, their Seats and Parishes, at the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, listed under "Palk"
  3. ^ See image at
  4. ^ Barber, Chips & Barber, Sally, Around & About the Haldon Hills - Revisited, Obelisk Publications, 1996, pp.34–36