Ugbrooke House
| Ugbrooke | |
| Devon | |
|---|---|
 Ugbrooke House | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SX875780 |
| Location: | 50°35’27"N, 3°35’26"W |
| History | |
| Country house | |
| Information | |
| Website: | www.ugbrooke.co.uk |
Ugbrooke House is a stately home in the parish of Chudleigh in Devon, sitting in a valley between Exeter and Newton Abbot.
The Ugbrooke estate dates back over 900 years, having featured in the Domesday Book. Before the Reformation the land belonged to the Church and the house was occupied by Precentors to the Bishop of Exeter.
The house has been the seat of the Clifford family for over four hundred years, since the Reformation,and the owners have held the title Baron Clifford of Chudleigh since 1672. The house, now a Grade I listed building, was remodelled by Robert Adam.
The house and gardens are open to the public for a limited number of days each summer.
Park and gardens
The grounds of Ugbrook were redesigned by Capability Brown in 1761.[1] The grounds featured what were possibly the earliest plantings of the European White Elm Ulmus laevis in the UK.[2]
The gardens are now Grade II* listed in the National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.[3]
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Ugbrooke Park) |
References
- ↑ Stroud, D. (1950). Capability Brown. New edition 1984, Faber & Faber, London. ISBN 978-0571134052
- ↑ Elwes, H. J. & Henry, A. (1913). The Trees of Great Britain & Ireland. Vol. VII. 1848–1929. Republished 2004 Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9781108069380
- ↑ National Heritage List 1000705: Ugbrooke Park
