🏠 Indoor & outdoorGardensEducationalSeasonal opening
What’s there
- Free parking
- Picnic area
- Dogs welcome
Free car park for visitors to the house, with two hard-surface blue badge spaces; caravans and trailers should telephone ahead. Access is from the A376 end of Summer Lane.
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
A la Ronde is a 16-sided house on the edge of Exmouth, built in the 1790s by two cousins, Jane and Mary Parminter, after their tour of Europe. Inside, children can explore the shell-decorated rooms, the crowded cabinets of travel souvenirs and the Room of Discovery, a sensory space inspired by the Shell Gallery. There is a grand piano in the music room to play. Outside, a level meadow path and a sculpture bench trail wind through an orchard and hay meadow with views over the Exe estuary. The Exe Estuary Trail runs close by for walking and cycling. Dogs on leads are welcome in the grounds. It suits a relaxed half-day out for families who enjoy history, quirky buildings and open space rather than rides or play equipment.
Closed for the winter; the National Trust says it reopens in March 2027.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
- Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
- Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
- Wet wipes
- Small first aid kitPlasters solve more days out than anything else here.
- Gloves
- Sun hat
- Wet bagFor whatever comes home soaked.
- Spare batteries
- Sun cream for after
- Picnic blanket
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