Stable House

There's a rather handsome stone building near Plymouth that most visitors heading into the South West completely walk past. Stable House is exactly what the name suggests - a proper old stable block that's been standing around for centuries and now serves as a marker of sorts for anyone interested in how people actually lived and worked in Devon.

The building itself is modest but solid, the kind of structure you'd expect to find backing onto a grand manor house or estate. It's not a vast tourist operation, which is rather the point. What you get is a genuine sense of place without the manufactured heritage experience. Walk around it, take photos of the stonework, and you've got the bones of understanding how rural Devon operated when horses and farming still mattered to everyday life.

This isn't a destination you'd spend hours at - 20 minutes tops if you're thorough. But if you're based at one of the nearby glamping spots like Dartmoor Domes or Hidden Hill, and you're exploring the Plymouth area anyway, it's absolutely worth a quick detour. The real appeal is the walk there and back through the Devonian landscape rather than the building itself as a standalone attraction. Families with young kids won't find much to keep them entertained for long, but anyone with a genuine interest in vernacular architecture or how Devon's working past looked will appreciate what's on offer.