Heanton Satchville, Huish
Heanton Satchville, Huish is an estate in the parish of Huish in Devon. It took its name from the nearby former ancient estate of Heanton Satchville, Petrockstowe. It is the seat of Baron Clinton[1] who owns the largest private estate in Devon, known as Clinton Devon Estates.
History
Two years before the 17th Baron Clinton died aged 33 in 1797, his house at Heanton Satchville, Petrockstowe burned down. His wife died a year after her husband, leaving a son and heir (the 18th Baron) aged 10, without a habitable residence. On reaching his majority of 21 in 1812 he purchased the ancient manor of Huish, its estate and mansion house, Innes House, that lay across the valley from the destroyed Heanton Satchville, and renamed it Heanton Satchville.[2][3]
The mansion at Huish also burned down, on 18 December 1932,[4] and was rebuilt in 1937-8 by Charles John Robert Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis, 21st Baron Clinton (1863–1957) to the design of Sir Walter and Michael Tapper, in the late 17th-century style, in an H-shape, with modillion cornice and sash-windows.[5] Bicton House, inherited from his uncle Mark Rolle (d.1907) had nevertheless remained the 21st Baron's principal seat until his death in 1957.[6]
References
- ^ Debrett's Peerage, 2015
- ^ Lysons, Daniel; Lysons, Samuel (1822). Magna Britannia, Volume Six, containing Devonshire. London: Thomas Cadell. pp. 284–5. Retrieved 5 March 2012.
- ^ Lauder, Rosemary (2002). Devon Families. Tiverton: Halsgrove. p. 68. ISBN 1-84114-140-2.
- ^ Lauder, p.73
- ^ Pevsner, Nikolaus & Cherry, Bridget, The Buildings of England: Devon, London, 2004, p.497
- ^ Delderfield, Eric R., West Country Historic Houses and their Families, Newton Abbot, 1968, pp.79-82, Heanton Satchville, p.80