Downes, Crediton
| Downes | |
| Devon | |
|---|---|
 Downes House, near Crediton by T Bonner | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SX85159976 |
| Location: | 50°47’10"N, 3°37’50"W |
| History | |
| Country house | |
| Information | |
| Website: | www.downesestate.co.uk |
Downes House stands about one mile east of Crediton in Devon.[1] The house is an 18th-century Palladian re-modelling of an earlier house.[2] The house is a Grade II* listed building.[3][4]
Nearby is the site of a Roman villa, revealed by crop-marks as a rectangular enclosure containing a winged-corridor structure.[5]
In 2012 the estate was measured at 1,400 acres, including the Home Farm (419 acres), Fordton Barton (203 acres), Uton Barton (327 acres), Dunscombe Farm (246 acres) and other land 110 acres and parkland.[6]
History
Gould
The estate of Downes was purchased in 1692 by Moses Gould (1668–1703),[2] eldest son and heir of William Gould (1640–1671) of Hayes in the parish of St Thomas, Exeter and of Dunscombe, the Member of Parliament for Dartmouth in 1671. His eldest son and heir was William Gould, who left two daughters as co-heiresses, and the estate thereafter descended through his daughter Elizabeth, who married James Buller of Morval, Cornwall and the estate descended to their heirs.
Mowbray Louis Buller (born 1892), a Major in the King's Royal Rifle Corps, married Silvia Katharine Watney Cornbury Park, Oxfordshire a partner in the brewing firm Watney Combe & Reid). His heiress was his eldest daughter, Susan, who married Major Peter Henry Parker and the estate is now owned by theior son, Henry Mowbray Parker.
Outside links
- Downes Estate
- Downes House - British Listed Buildings
References
- ↑ Risdon, Tristram: 'Survey of Devon' (in 1811 edition p.373)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Cherry & Pevsner, pp.339–40
- ↑ Downes, Crediton - British Listed Buildings
- ↑ National Monuments Record: No. 447380 – Downes, Crediton Hamlets
- ↑ National Monuments Record: No. 447414 – Cropmarks, Crediton Hamlets
- ↑ Bird, Mr L.C., MRICS, Passmore Wright & Co, Chartered Surveyors of Bideford, Devon, report to Devon County Council dated 30 March 2012 re Agricultural Appraisal on behalf of the Trustees of the Downes Estate for a proposed irrigation lake
- Burke's Landed Gentry, 1937, "Buller of Downes", pp. 277–279
- Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Devon, 1952; 1989 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09596-8
- Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L. (Ed.) 'The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620' (1895)