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Regular visitors to the South Hams in South Devon may have seen signposts to Mothecombe, but perhaps never taken the turning down the winding lanes to visit this quiet country estate. The house, a beautiful Queen Anne jewel box, is built with local grey stone, and its facade features ten sash windows that overlook a wooded valley carpeted with spring flowers and studded with fresh blooms of camellias, rhododendrons and azaleas as it wends its way down to a picture-perfect beach. The grounds consist of a formal walled garden in front of the house, a walled vegetable garden that is now planted to attract bees, an orchard and a woodland garden that