Hillersdon House
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Hillersdon House
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| Location | Cullompton, Devon, England |
| Coordinates | 50°51′45″N 3°25′44″W / 50.86250°N 3.42889°WCoordinates: 50°51′45″N 3°25′44″W / 50.86250°N 3.42889°W |
| Built | 1848 |
| Architect | Samuel Beazley |
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Listed Building – Grade II*
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| Official name: Hillersdon House | |
| Designated | 5 April 1966 |
| Reference no. | 1326145 |
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Listed Building – Grade II
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| Official name: Stable block 50 metres north of Hillersdon House | |
| Designated | 11 June 1986 |
| Reference no. | 1105931 |
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Listed Building – Grade II
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| Official name: Jane's Cottage 150 metres south-south-west of Hillersdon House | |
| Designated | 11 June 1986 |
| Reference no. | 1168555 |
 Location of Hillersdon House in Devon
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Hillersdon House in the parish of Cullompton in Devon, is a grade II* listed late Georgian style manor house overlooking that town. It was re-built 1848–1852 by William Charles Grant (1817-1877), to the design of Samuel Beazley, the notable theatre architect.
It is a two-storey building arranged around a central hall, built of red brick with Portland stone dressing and a hipped slate roof. The red brick stable block was built at about the same time as the main house along with "Jane's Cottage" within the grounds. The main house is set out on an "H" plan around a central hall. The north-east front is the main entrance with a porte-cochère flanked by Tuscan columns, while the south-west side mirrors the north east but without the porte-cochère. It is surrounded by landscaped gardens with ponds and a deer park.
The Domesday Book of 1086 lists the manor of HILESDONE as the 18th of the 24 Devonshire holdings of Odo FitzGamelin, one of the Devon Domesday Book tenants-in-chief of King William the Conqueror. He was the son-in-law of Theobald FitzBerner, another of the Devon Domesday Book tenants-in-chief. The lands of both men later formed part of the feudal barony of Great Torrington. His tenant at Hillersdon was Reginald. In the Book of Fees (13th century) it is listed as held from the feudal barony of Great Torrington.
The estate was the seat of the de Hillersdon family, whose family as was usual had taken their surname from their seat. They remained for several generations, as Pole (d.1635) relates: "untill beinge advanced by their matches in diverse howses they left their dwellinge heere & removed unto their other howses of better valewe & sold this land away". The first favourable "match" appears to have been made by Andrew Hillersdon (son and heir of Robert Hillersdon (d.1499)) who according to the Heraldic Visitations of Devon, married Anne Edgecombe, "daughter and heir of Sir Richard Edgecombe of Edgecombe" and widow of Sir William Trevanion of Caerhays. (The Edgcumbe pedigree in the Heraldic Visitations of Devon however lists no "Sir Richard Edgecombe of Edgecombe" who left female heiresses at this date, and the estate of Edgcumbe in the parish of Milton Abbot remained in the Edgcumbe family until at least 1725.) The seat of his son Roger Hillersdon, who married into the prominent Fortescue family, was Membland in the parish of Holbeton, Devon, where his descendants remained for several generations.
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