Moreton House

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Moreton House in Bideford, east front
Moreton House, south facade
Moreton House, north facade
Moreton House, stables

Moreton House (until 1821 Daddon House ) is a country house near Bideford in the north of the English county of Devon . It is about 1.6 km west of the old center of the city. English Heritage has listed the house as a second-degree historic building. The house, whose driveway branches south from the Bideford to Abbotsham road , has been increasingly surrounded by suburbs of Bideford recently, leaving only about two acres of the house's former parkland in 2014. The property is believed to have been owned by the famous Grenville family , lords of the Bideville manor and the von Stowe in Cornwall . It was later bought by the Buck family from Bideford, who had the house rebuilt in 1760 and again in 1821. In 1858 the Buck family changed their name to Stucley in honor of an ancestor and heiress. The Stucley family, who had inherited other large country estates such as Hartland Abbey , Affeton Castle and North Molton , sold Moreton House in 1956. After that, Grenville College , a private school, resided there . The country house is a fine example of Georgian architecture . In the former parkland there were ornamental gardens with two lakes, fountains, waterfalls and formal border plantings. The house, along with 2 acres of remaining parkland, went up for sale in 2014 for the surprisingly low price of £ 500,000 and became known across the country when the Daily Mail cited a small garage for one car in Kensington , west of London , for the same price as the 28-bedroom Moreton House. The real estate agent explained the low price with the enormous size of the house (3165 m² living space, 28 bedrooms, 19 reception rooms, a ballroom and eight bathrooms). The former name of the house is reminiscent of an industrial area called Daddon Court just south of Moreton House.

history

Buck

Canting arms of Bucks of Daddon (Moreton), Bideford: By battlements bar separate white and black, three buck antlers (ger .: Buck) on scalp on hiatus

The Buck family were shipowners and merchants from Bideford who traded with the American colonies from the 17th century and owned tobacco plantations in Virginia and a sawmill in Bideford, Maine . Bideford was the leading tobacco port in England. With their profits they bought much of the land around Bideford, and eventually their estates enclosed almost the north side of town from Westleigh to Northam in the late 18th century . Your arms shows through battlements bar separate white and black, three buck antlers (ger .: Buck) on scalp on hiatus . This coat of arms is used by today's Baronets Stucley quartered with the old Stucley coat of arms, with the Stucley coat of arms appearing in the 1st and 4th quarter. The ancestry of the Bucks looks like this:

  • John Buck, whose wife's maiden name was Hartwell .
  • Hartwell Buck († 1691), son, buried in Bideford. He married Sibella Ford († 1706), daughter of John Ford.
  • George I. Buck (1674-1743), 3rd son and final heir. He was mayor of Bideford seven times. In 1697 he married Sara Stucley († 1742), daughter and first wife of Dennis Stucley (1673/1674 - 1741/1742) from Affeton in the parish of West Worlington , a very old and prominent family of the lower nobility in Devonshire, which, however, died in the English Civil War was nearly ruined because of its partisanship for the royalist cause.
  • John Buck († 1745), 3rd son and heir, who married Judith Pawley († 1739), the sole heir of William Pawley from Bideford, in 1729.
  • George II Buck (1731-1794), eldest son and heir, Justice of the Peace of Devon. In 1755 he inherited the estate of Affeton Castle and other lands from his great-uncle Dennis Stucley († 1755), 1748 Sheriff of Devon, who died unmarried. In 1754 he married Anne Orchard (1730-1820), daughter of Paul I. Orchard († 1740), Member of Parliament, from Hartland Abbey near Bideford, and sister of Paul II Orchard (1739-1812) from Hartland Abbey, who died childless and bequeathed it to his other sister, Charlotte Hooper Morrison of Yeo Vale House. The Orchards had made their fortunes by collecting taxes for the King at Exeter, Barnstaple, and Bideford. George II Buck had Daddon House rebuilt around 1760 and made it his home. The asymmetrical floor plan of the new house suggests that he had part of the old house preserved and integrated. The Bucks visited Affeton from time to time and lived with the tenant of Barton Farm, as the Stucley's former castle had been destroyed in the Civil War, leaving only the ruins of the gatehouse . He acquired the church patronage of Bideford from the heirs of William Granville, 3rd Earl of Bath (1692-1711), the last lord of the Bideford manor from the Grenville family.
George Stucley Buck (1755-1791), of Daddon House (later Morton House) and Affeton , Devon, in military uniform. Portrait of an Associate by George Romney (1734–1802), Bideford Town Council collection , on display in Bideford Town Hall .
  • George Stucley Buck (1755-1791), only son and heir. In 1780 he married Martha Keats (1753-1833), eldest daughter of Richard Keats, principal of the Tiverton School, principal of Bideford and King's Nympton. He died before both of his parents at the age of 36. His portrait was painted by an employee of George Romney (1734–1802); it hangs in Bideford Town Hall .
  • George Pawley Buck (1782-1805), 2nd son and heir, died at the age of 23 without offspring. As a patron of the church, he made a foundation for the Bideford Rectory in 1804.
  • Lewis William Buck (1784-1858), younger brother. Member of Parliament for Exeter 1826-1832 and for North Devon 1839-1857. He attended Blundells School in Tiverton and Emmanuel College in Cambridge . He inherited Hartland Abbey at the last will of his great-aunt Charlotte Hooper Morrison. He owned Daddon's paternal Buck estate and other estates, the Stucley inheritance at Affeton and other estates, and Hartland Abbey and other estates. In 1808 he married Ann Robbins, daughter of Thomas Robbins of Roundhams, Berkshire . He is said to have had further construction carried out in Daddon House in 1821 and changed the name to Moreton House. He hosted Benjamin Disraeli at Moreton House, but before he became Prime Minister in 1868 (after Lewis William Buck's death). He had an extraordinary political career and it is thought that if he had lived long enough to see Disraeli's cabinet he would have become a minister or a member of the nobility. He could then have given his son the honor of baronetie, as compensation, so to speak. As a church patron, he made two offers to the Bideford Rectory, in 1844 and 1853.

Buck (Stucley)

Coat of arms of the Stucleys: blue, three hanging pears in gold
Motto: Bellement et Hardiment ("beautiful and brave")
  • Sir George Stucley Buck Stucley, 1st Baronet, (1812–1900), son and heir, who took the Stucley's name and coat of arms by royal permission in 1858 and was made baronet in 1859. He was twice MP for Barnstaple, but retired from politics in 1868 and was later Sheriff of Devon. He married Lady Elizabeth O'Bryan, fourth daughter and co-heir of William O'Brien, 2nd Marquess of Thomond , (1765-1846), through whom he had descendants. He was very interested in family history, heraldry, and his ancestors. He had Hartland Abbey refurbished and 1868-1869 the ruins of the gatehouse of Affeton Castle, the only building of the fortified manor of the Stucleys that was left after it was destroyed in the Civil War. He renamed the gatehouse Affeton Castle and used it as a hunting lodge for hunted grouse in Affeton Moor. He lived in Hartland Abbey from 1840 to 1870, and after the death of his first wife, he handed the castle over to his son. In 1872 he married Lousia Granville, daughter of Sir Beville Granville of Wellesbourne, Warwickshire , for the second time . He moved to Exbury House on the Solent , which he rented to pursue his passion for yacht sailing. As a patron saint, he made two foundations to the Bideford Rectory, 1878 and 1896. He died in Moreton House in 1900, at the age of 88.
  • Lt.-Col. Sir William Lewis Stucley, 2nd Baronet, (1836–1911), eldest son of the 1st Baronet and his first wife, died without offspring. His second wife, Marion, survived him; she lived in Hartland Abbey until 1932.
  • Sir Edward Arthur George Stucley, 3rd Baronet, (1852–1927), younger brother, died without descendants. In 1913 he had three rooms on the first floor of Moreton House connected to create a ballroom.
  • Sir Hugh Nicholas Granville Stucley, 4th Baronet, (1873–1956), eldest half-brother, son of Louisa Granville. He had moved to Moreton House in 1913 and had major renovations carried out. Sir Hugh served as Lieutenant Commander in the Royal Navy . He was elected to Bideford City Council and was the district mayor. This was the 37th time a member of the family has served as the district mayor. He was also elected to the Devon County Parliament in 1906 and was Alderman of the county in 1908. He was particularly concerned with finance and education. His personal interests were fishing, hunting, and landscaping. He himself designed the wonderful gardens for which Moreton House was previously known. From 1939 to 1945, during the Second World War , the King's Mead Preparatory School was housed temporarily from its former quarters in Seaford , Sussex . Sir Hugh moved into the lodge and looked after the boys who were too young to live in the boarding school.
  • Sir Dennis Frederic Bankes Stucley, 5th Baronet, (1907-1983). He spent his early childhood in Pillhead, East-the-Water, in Bideford and his youth in Moreton House. Like his father, he was Mayor of Bideford. In 1947 his father bequeathed him the property in Affeton, along with the manor of West Worlington and other lands. In 1932 he married the Hon. Sheila Bampfylde, daughter and (after the death of her brother in 1936) sole heir to George Wentworth Warwick Bampfylde, 4th Baron Poltimore , (1882-1965) of Poltimore and North Molton and other lands in Devon and other parts of the country. The 4th Baron sold most of the English lands and moved to Rhodesia , where he died in 1965. Sheila inherited the property from North Molton with the manor and the court house, another large house in the village. The 5th Baronet and his wife lived temporarily at Court Hall in North Molton, where he indulged his hobby of pheasant hunting, as well as at Hartland Abbey, where she planted a new garden. In 1956 the Baronet sold Moreton House.
  • Sir Hugh George Copplestone Bampfylde Stucley, 6th Baronet (born 1945). In 1976 he, his wife and his young family lived in the old gatehouse of Affeton Castle, which the baronet had expanded to include children's rooms and additional bedrooms. He managed the farm with 400 hectares of land. He sees Affeton Castle as the main family home and this is - unlike Hartland Abbey - a private home that is not open to the public.

Grenville College

Moreton House was sold by the Stucley family and became part of Grenville College , a private school. The gardens were well maintained and were open to the public at certain times. Around this time, several more houses were built on the property of the country house, z. B. Scott House and Crabbe House . The school's play and sports facilities were in the extensive grounds around the country house, but private homes have been built on this area since the school closed.

Individual references and comments

  1. ↑ Daddon Hill is about 3 km north of Moreton House in the neighboring community of Northam.
  2. ^ A b c d e Moreton (now part of Grenville College), Bideford . British Listed Buildings. Retrieved July 22, 2016.
  3. ↑ a b c d e John Lambrick Vivian (Editor): The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitiations of 1531, 1564 & 1620 . Stucley & Buck Pedigree, Exeter 1895. p. 723.
  4. ↑ James Gibbs, the director of land and new homes at Jackson-Stops & Staff said, “It's a great deal if you're looking for something special. The price is so low because it's so big. If it was only a tenth the size, it would probably cost the same price, so you get 90% free. It can be turned into a school, a hotel, or converted into apartments; But it can also be a home for someone with a lot of furniture. "
  5. ↑ a b Mark Duell: It's a (very cheap) house in the country! The Devon manor with 28 bedrooms that's on sale for an incredible £ 500,000 ... . Daily Mail Online, July 8, 2014. Retrieved July 22, 2016.
  6. ↑ a b Debrett's Peerage. 1968. p. 768. Stucley Baronets.
  7. ^ A b c d e f Sir Dennis Stucley, 5th Baronet: A Devon Parish Lost, A new Home Discovered in Transactions of the Devonshire Association . Issue 108 (1976). Pp. 1-11.
  8. ↑ Debrett's Peerage. 1968. p .769. Stucley Baronets.
  9. ↑ a b c d e f Rosemary Lauder: Devon Families . Tiverton, 2002. Chapter: Stucley family . P. 146.
  10. ↑ Paul Orchard did not leave Hartland Abbey to his sister Anne Buck, as many modern historians assume, but to his other sister, Charlotte Hooper Morrison, as Sir Hugh Stucley discovered, who found a copy of her will in the family archives at Hartland Abbey.
  11. ↑ a b Lt. Commander JH Stucley, DSC, RN, (Uncle of the 6th Baronet): A Brief Note on Affeton . Publication date unknown.
  12. ↑ In 1783 he made a foundation for the Rectory, as it is in the framed list of Rectors in the Church of Bideford. In 1810 the patron was Lewis William Buck .
  13. ^ Tristram Risdon: Survey of Devon . London, 1811, with additions from 1810. p. 423.
  14. ↑ Gives 1794 as the year of death.
  15. ^ Buck, George Pawley (a minor), seated at Daddon, Bideford in John Swete: Names of the Noblemen and Principal Gentlemen in the County of Devon, their Seats and Parishes at the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century , 1810, in Tristram Risdon: Survey of Devon . London, 1811, with additions from 1810.
  16. ↑ a b c As mentioned in the framed list of Rectors in Bideford Church.
  17. ↑ Terry Jenkins: Buck, Lewis William (1784-1858), of Daddon House, Moreton and Hartland Abbey, no. Bideford, Devon in DR Fisher (Editor): The History of Parliament . House of Commons 1820-1832, London 2009. Retrieved July 22, 2016.
  18. ^ A b Rosemary Lauder: Devon Families . Tiverton, 2002. Chapter: Stucley family . P. 147.
  19. ^ Rev. Roger Granville. History of the Granville Family .
  20. ^ A b Rosemary Lauder: Devon Families . Tiverton, 2002. Chapter: Stucley family . P. 148.
  21. ^ King's Mead during World War II . King's Mead School. Retrieved July 22, 2016.
  22. ^ A b Rosemary Lauder: Devon Families . Tiverton, 2002. Chapter: Stucley family . P. 149.

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Coordinates: 51 ° 0 '53.2 "  N , 4 ° 13' 51.2"  W.