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Country house. An early eighteenth century brick house built for James Younge. There is an extension of about 1860. White (1850) noted that it was `a large and handsome mansion …..The house has tasteful grounds, and commands a fine view of the vale of the Yealm.` Stockdale described it as `an interesting spacious mansion contiguous to the delightful plantations of Kitley.` The Country Life article states ' many of the original garden enclosures remain , though it is unlikely that they were ever as numerous or elaborate here'.
House is listed Grade I ; garden walls to south, courtyard walls, gatepiers and outbuildings to south east, pair of granite gate piers 50m. to east south east Grade II*
Cherry & Pevsner: The Buildings of England – Devon, 1989: 697
S Pugsley: Devon Gardens – An Historical Survey, 1994: 3,70
T Gray: The Garden History of Devon, 1995: 186 Country Life , 18 November 1933
