Overbeck's

The original house on the site was "Sharpitor", a small villa by Salcombe builder Albert Stumbles.

In 1913 the property was bought by Mr and Mrs George Medlicott Vereker[3] who demolished the original house and had the present one built.

Wishing the house to be used after his death as "a public park and museum and a Hostel for Youth" Overbeck bequeathed it to the National Trust or Salcombe Urban District Council on condition it be used as such and not as a brothel as so many properties in the surrounding area had become.

The museum displayed some of Overbeck's inventions and collections of stuffed animals, and exhibitions of model sailing ships and various nautical and shipbuilding tools and effects.

It has become a specialised collection of tender Mediterranean and Australasian plants growing in the microclimate on the edge of the Kingsbridge Estuary.