Haccombe House
Haccombe House is a former manor house in Devon , United Kingdom . The property, protected as a cultural monument, is located in the village of Haccombe with Combe about four kilometers east of Newton Abbot .
history
During the Norman conquest of England , Stephen de Haccombe acquired the Haccombe estate after 1066. Through his descendants it came into the possession of the Arundell family until Nicholas Carew acquired it in the 15th century through his marriage to the heiress Joan Courtenay . Joan Courtenay bequeathed the estate to her younger son Sir Nicholas Carew († 1469), who founded the Carew von Haccombe family . The current mansion is essentially from the 18th century and was rebuilt at the beginning of the 19th century. It is not clear whether this reconstruction took place under Thomas Carew, 6th Baronet († 1805) or under his son Henry Carew, 7th Baronet († 1830). Another renovation took place around 1838. The property remained in the possession of the Carew family until 1942. It then served as a school, among other things, until it was finally divided into apartments. Protected as a cultural monument since 1955, it has been rated as a Grade II * cultural monument since December 2, 1988 .
investment
The house, built in the simple Georgian style , has two full floors and an attic floor and is made of red sandstone. The three-axis middle section is hardly set off from the facade. Of the decorative elements of the 18th century, only rustified corners and a balcony supported by two pairs of Ionic columns above the front door of the house have been preserved. The simple hipped roof is covered with slate. On the right, south-western side there is a simple two-storey extension, on the left, northeastern side there is a two-storey, two-winged low extension with a triangular gable and a column-supported arcade.
To the north of the manor is the small church of St Blaise , which belongs to the estate and was mentioned in 1335 at the latest, but its core probably dates back to the 13th century. From 1863 to 1864 the church was restored. The single-nave church has a roof turret over the gable and several grave monuments inside.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Bridget Cherry, Nikolaus Pevsner: Devon (Buildings of England). Penguin, London 1991, ISBN 0-14-071050-7 , p. 464.
Coordinates: 50 ° 31'13.8 " N , 3 ° 33'19.8" W.