- Parkland
The house was rebuilt by Ernest George, when his partner was Harold Peto, for Thomas Carew Daniel in 1883-4. Ernest George won a Royal Academy Gold Award for this design in 1885. The original carriage drive is now the minor road from the A396 at Cove. The site is entered from the north down a heavily wooded drive and continues into the north court through a gateway beside an attractive two-storey brick summerhouse. An arch to the west led to the service drive, now cut off to serve the properties to the west, built in the walled gardens. Through a gap in the wall on the east side of the court was a formal parterre style garden, shown in the 1924 sale catalogue, now a car park. The main terraces south of the house are largely unchanged with mature trees beyond each end. The main terrace retains the viewing platforms at both ends and balustraded steps at the east end. Tall yew hedges on the lowest level now partly block the wide views to the south. The walled gardens and gardener's cottage can be viewed from the southern third of the former productive gardens, which is still part of the main site. The magnificent glasshouses described in The Gardener's Chronicle of 22 July 1882 have long gone.
Stoodleigh Courtlisted listed Grade II*, Garden house and courtyard boundary walls, south terrace walls and steps and the Gardeners Cottage listed Grade II*.
Cherry & Pevsner: The Buildings of England – Devon, 1989: 109, 767
T Gray: The Garden History of Devon,1995: 211
