Mohun's Ottery
Mohun's Ottery is a Devon , United Kingdom farmhouse built in place of an older mansion . The listed property is located southeast of the village of Luppitt , about six kilometers northeast of Honiton .
history
Mohun's Ottery, also called Ottery Fleming , was first mentioned as Otri in the Domesday Book in the 11th century. The River Otter , after which it takes its name, flows east of the property . In the 13th century the estate was owned by the Mohun family . Before 1303 it came into the possession of Sir John Carew through marriage . His descendant Sir Peter Carew had a new mansion built in the 16th century. After Peter Carew's death in 1575, his niece Thomasine Southgate inherited the property. In the late 17th and 18th centuries, the property changed hands several times. It was leased as a farm and no longer served as a mansion. Before 1868 the old mansion burned down. Probably a little south of it, a new farmhouse was built in the simple Neo Tudor style in 1868, and a farm building was built on the ruins of the manor house. The ruins of the gatehouse and remains of the surrounding wall are still preserved from the old property. The farmhouse has been protected as a Grade II cultural monument since February 22, 1955, and the gatehouse ruins as a Grade II * cultural monument since March 16, 1988 .
investment
The two-story farmhouse was built from quarry stone on a U-shaped floor plan. In the portal of the central wing, the processed stones from the burned down mansion were reused. About five meters south of the house are the ruins of the gatehouse, which dates from the mid-16th century. Of the originally two- or even three-story gate, only the roofless remains of the ground floor with a gate passage with Tudor arches and adjacent walls are preserved.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Historic England: MOHUNS OTTERY GATEHOUSE AND FRONT GARDEN WALLS. Retrieved June 5, 2017 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 50 '38.4 " N , 3 ° 9' 10.1" W.