page_title: Bicton House, Devon
section_title: 19th and 20th centuries
hierarchical_section_title: Bicton House, Devon / Manor / 19th and 20th centuries
caption_attribution_description: Portrait of Hon. Mark George Kerr Rolle (1836-1907), hanging in boardroom of Clinton Devon Estates, Budleigh Salterton. This is a copy of the original by John Collier which hangs in Great Torrington Town Hall and which was "presented to the Borough of Great Torrington by inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood in grateful remembrance of his life and character" (gilt plaque on Great Torrington painting)
context_page_description: Bicton House, or Bickton House, is a late 18th- or early 19th-century country house, which stands on the campus of Bicton College, Bicton, near Exmouth, East Devon. It is a Grade II* listed building. The park and gardens are Grade I listed in the National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.
  It is located about three miles from Sidmouth, in Devonshire. It had been in the East Budleigh Hundred.
context_section_description: In about 1800 John Rolle, 1st Baron Rolle (d.1842), son of Dennis Rolle (d.1797), replaced the old manor house with the existing three-storey mansion, designed by architect James Wyatt and built in red brick and limestone. Wyatt also designed the Lodge, built at the same time.
  The site was described about 1820 to have a "commanding full view of the British Channel" and ancient beech and oak trees within the estate's park. The mansion, with two extensive wings, held an extensive collection of art, including works by Rembrandt and Ruysdael. It looked over the village of Otterton, with its little church, and the "lovely peep" between the Saltern and the ocean. A Gothic lodge is located at the main entrance, followed by a rustic inner lodge. Another entrance is by a "neat cottage-lodge." An obelisk is seen from most parts of the ground.
  John Rolle, 1st Baron Rolle married the Hon. Louisa Trefusis, a relative and second daughter of Robert Trefusis, 17th Baron Clinton. He died without issue in 1842. The Stevenstone and Bicton estates, amounting to some 55,000 acres (220 km²), devolved by his will to Hon. Mark George Kerr Trefusis (1836–1907), then aged 6, the nephew of his second wife Louisa Trefusis (1794–1885) (daughter of Robert George William Trefusis, 17th Baron Clinton (1764–1797)), and second son of the 19th Baron Clinton. On his inheritance in 1852 he changed his surname to Rolle; he died without issue in 1907, his heir being his nephew Charles John Robert Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis, 21st Baron Clinton (1863–1957).
caption: Sir John Collier, Hon. Mark Rolle (1836-1907), Collection of Lord Clinton
exif: {}