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Summary

Yarty house, rebuilt by nicholas fry, high sherriff of devon, in 1626. A large e-shaped house ruinated by 1830 when james davidson painted a water- colour of the remains. One portion only habitable at that time; garden and fishponds gone to ruin. Few of the walls remained and the structure had been taken-down as far as the ground floor windows. Over the entrance doorway was a shield with helmet mantling and crest in stone: the arms are quarterly 1) fry, 2) 3 swans or birds, 3) lion rampant, 4) a fess engrailed between three mullets. Crest - a horse's head erased. The house was utterly destroyed in january 1851 by fire except for the dovecote in the middle of the courtyard. A small farmhouse was later built on the site and the old doorway without coat of arms was preserved. A stone 'horse's head erased' stands on the lawn near the doorway. Probably one of a pair at the main entrance. A new yarty house built at s end of the property on rising ground above beckford bridge, and by 1954 even the dovecote which stood in the centre of the stone-walled enclosure to w of house had been destroyed (wilkin).

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: ST20SE/1
• Old Listed Building Ref (II)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• MANSION HOUSE (XVII - 1601 AD to 1700 AD (Between))

Full description

WILKIN, DCNQ, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV110471.

Pump from pulman's printing works in axminster removed to here (wilkin, dcnq).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV110474.

Wilkin, w. H. /tda/61(1929)349/notes on membury, part 4.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV110475.

Osa=st20se2.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV110476.

Polwhele, r. /history of devon/3(1797)284.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV110477.

Reichel, o. J. /tda/33(1901)607/the devonshire domesday. Part vi.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV110478.

Wilkin, w. H. /dcnq/17(1932-1933)366/pulmans well and pump, axminster.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV110479.

Pulman, g. P. R. /the book of the axe/(1875)726.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV110480.

Doe/hhr:62:part of east devon(19/10/1984)135.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV110481.

Hoskins, w. /devon/(1954)434.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV110482.

Copeland, g. W. /devon dovecotes/88(1956)198.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV110483.

Tda/41(1929)350.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV110484.

Tda/88(1956)198.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV242.

The estate appeared as "yarte" in domesday (reichel).

Wilkin, W. H., Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV31915.

Yarty house, rebuilt by nicholas fry, high sherriff of devon, in 1626. A large e-shaped house ruinated by 1830 when james davidson painted a water- colour of the remains. One portion only habitable at that time; garden and fishponds gone to ruin. Few of the walls remained and the structure had been taken-down as far as the ground floor windows. Over the entrance doorway was a shield with helmet mantling and crest in stone: the arms are quarterly 1) fry, 2) 3 swans or birds, 3) lion rampant, 4) a fess engrailed between three mullets. Crest - a horse's head erased. The house was utterly destroyed in january 1851 by fire except for the dovecote in the middle of the courtyard. A small farmhouse was later built on the site and the old doorway without coat of arms was preserved. A stone 'horse's head erased' stands on the lawn near the doorway. Probably one of a pair at the main entrance. A new yarty house built at s end of the property on rising ground above beckford bridge, and by 1954 even the dovecote which stood in the centre of the stone-walled enclosure to w of house had been destroyed (wilkin).

Department of Environment, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV325984.

Circa early c17. A house on this site was rebuilt in 1626 by nicholas fry, sheriff of devon. Appears to have been reduced and partly rebuilt in c18 and c19 (doe).

COPELAND, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV33318.

The dovecote which appears to have stood in the centre of the stone walled enclosure west of the house, has been entirely swept away; not even foundations remaining (copeland).

Devon County Council, 1838-1848, Tithe Mosaic, approximately 1838-1848 (Cartographic). SDV349431.

Map object based on this source.

Ordnance Survey, 2013, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV350786.

Map object based on this source.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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