Nutwell Court, Woodbury (The Gatehouse Record)

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as;
Nuteville; Notewella; Nutewella

In the civil parish of Woodbury.
In the historic county of Devonshire.
Modern Authority of Devon.
1974 county of Devon.
Medieval County of Devon.

OS Map Grid Reference: SX987850
Latitude 50.65613° Longitude -3.43342°

Nutwell Court, Woodbury has been described as a probable Fortified Manor House.

There are masonry ruins/remnants remains.

This is a Grade 2* listed building protected by law*.

Description

Nutwell Court is said to have been strong house similar to Powderham. The manor belonged to the Dinhams; of their late medieval house parts of the chapel remain (there is a record of a licence for the chapel in 1371, but there appears to have been a chapel here in the early C14, a date that accords well with the style of the remaining glass); the house was rebuilt by Lord Dinham (later Henry VII's Treasurer) in the 1480s; this in turn was drastically remodelled in the 1750s by Sir Francis Drake who demolished the gatehouse at great expense and converted the chapel into a library thereby destroying part of the medieval roof. The house was largely rebuilt for the 2nd Lord Northcote in 1802 to plans by Samuel Pepys Cockerell. A major restoration was undertaken in the 1940s by George Northcott. The chapel is of sandstone ashlar. (Derived from Listed Building report)

Sources of information, references and further reading

National Heritage List for England Listed Building number(s) 1333302
Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s) 447825.
County Historic Environment Record (or Sites and Monuments Record) number(s) 9934; 15870.

Books
- Salter, Mike, 1999, The Castles of Devon and Cornwall (Malvern: Folly Publications) p. 87 (slight)
  Pevsner, Nikolaus and Cherry, Bridget, 1989, Buildings of England: Devon (Harmondsworth) p. 552
  Hoskins, W.G., 1954, A New Survey of England: Devon (London: Collins)
Periodical Articles
- Scott, E., 1956, 'Lympstone: a village story' Transactions of the Devonshire Association Vol. 88 p. 129
  Chope, R.P., 1918, 'The last of the Dynhams' Transactions of the Devonshire Association Vol. 50 p. 432,434,435,436,438
  Chope, R.P., 1911, 'The Lord Dynham's lands' Transactions of the Devonshire Association Vol. 43 p. 276-277, 285, 286, 287, 288, 291 online copy
  Oldham, D.W., 1906, 'Private chapels of Devon: ancient and modern' Transactions of the Devonshire Association Vol. 38 p. 401 (slight) online copy
Primary (Medieval documents or transcriptions of such documents - This section is far from complete and the secondary sources should be consulted for full references.)
- Reichel, O.J., 1903, 'The hundred of Budleigh in the time of "testa de nevil", AD.1244' Transactions of the Devonshire Association Vol. 35 p. 297 online copy

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