Whiteway House
| Whiteway House | |
| Devon | |
|---|---|
 Whiteway House, Chudleigh | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SX87678294 |
| Location: | 50°38’7"N, 3°35’23"W |
| Village: | Chudleigh |
| History | |
| Built 1770s | |
| For: | John Parker, 1st Baron Boringdon |
| Country house | |
| Information | |
Whiteway House in the parish of Chudleigh in Devon is a Georgian country house set within its own parkland two and a half miles north of Chudleigh, at the foot of the Haldon Hills. . It was built in the 1770s by John Parker, 1st Baron Boringdon (1735–1788) of Saltram House, Plympton, and has early 19th-century alterations.
The house had formerly a 5-bay north-east wing, a service range and a separate 19th-century service block to the rear, all demolished since 1962. It is today a Grade II* listed building.[1]
History
The Whiteway estate was purchased in 1722 by George Parker (d.1743) of Boringdon and North Molton, both in Devon.[2] He had also purchased Saltram before in 1712 and at another time Polsloe Priory.
In the 1770s, the present house was built by George Parker’s grandson, John Parker (created Baron Boringdon in 1784) whos emain residence was Saltram House, at Plympton. Whiteway became the residence of Lord Boringdon's younger brother Montagu Edmund Parker (1737–1831), and whose two portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds and John Downman survive at Saltram House.[3] It became the residence of his grandson Montagu Edmund Newcombe Parker, a member of Parliament between 1835 and 1841 (whose marriage in 1842 to his second-cousin Harriet Parker, heiress of the senior Parker line reunited the inheritances of the two lines of the family in the person of theeir son, Albert Edmund Parker, 3rd Earl of Morley. The 3rd Earl moved to Whiteway when his inherited debts forced him to let Saltram to tenants from 1861, three years before his death, though the family fortunes recovered until the agricultural slump of the start of the 20th century forced the 4th Earl to let Whiteway in 1911,[4] the proceeds from which he used to make improvements at Saltram. He sold Whiteway in 1923.[5]
In 2000, Whiteway was purchased with 281 acres by Raine Spencer, Countess Spencer. The estate was being operated in 2002 by her son William Legge, 10th Earl of Dartmouth (born 1949) as a commercial shoot.[6]
References
- ↑ National Heritage List 85287: Whiteway House
- ↑ Plymouth and West Devon Record Office, Morley of Saltram 69/M/2/331
- ↑ [1] See images
- ↑ Johnson, p.56
- ↑ Johnson, p.57
- ↑ Daily Telegraph 18 October 2002
- ohnson, Ceri. National Trust guidebook "Saltram, Devon", 2005
- [Whiteway House, Chudleigh - British Listed Buildings
- Jones, Mary. The history of Chudleigh, in the County of Devon, and the Surrounding Scenery, Seats, Families, etc. History of Chudleigh, c. 1870, Chapter 8