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Summary

Sixty yards e of otterton bridge is a garden wall believed to be part of the old priory walled garden and a doorway to a house. The doorway has a heavy stone frame with 3 centred arch and heavy keystone. The wall is made of old bricks and has a saddle-back coping with the remains of dentil course of cornerway bricks. On the w side there is a blocked doorway on which is placed in cut brick the letters rd for richard duke and below the date 169?.0/1.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SY08NE/36/2
• Old Listed Building Ref (II*)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• WALL (Early Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD to 1750 AD (Between))

Full description

NMR, CITING DOE ?1949, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV128354.

Sixty yards e of otterton bridge is a garden wall believed to be part of the old priory walled garden and a doorway to a house. The doorway has a heavy stone frame with 3 centred arch and heavy keystone. The wall is made of old bricks and has a saddle-back coping with the remains of dentil course of cornerway bricks. On the w side there is a blocked doorway on which is placed in cut brick the letters rd for richard duke and below the date 169?.0/1. The former manor house had its e front built in 1690, so that the wall and doorway may belong to it. They might also be part of the alien priory as the mansion incorporated remains of it. But their situation, within 60 yards of otterton bridge, suggests that they may be part of otterton barton - which was part of otterton manor when it was owned by richard duke, or might even be part of his cornmill (nmr, citing doe ?1949).

AND SOME PATCHING TO REAR, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV128356.

Hand-made local red brick including some burnt black bricks, stone rubble footings (and some patching to rear); doorway of coarse yellow sandstone ashlar. The bonding is erratic.

FACING THE ROAD, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV128357.

Sections can be found of english garden wall bond but most tends to a stretcher bond. Tall brick walls enclosing a rectangular garden separated from mill house only by the mill leat. The sw front wall (facing the road) has been raised with 19c brick at the right end and near the right end it includes a 17c stone doorway. Most of the brickwork is original but a section of the left (nw) side was rebuilt in 1967 and the top of the rear wall is patched with stone rubble. The footings line the bank of the mill leat on the right and the bank of the leat overflow channel to rear. The walls have steep coping sloping outwards to a projecting cornice and part of the front wall has a diagonal dentil cornice of a low segmental arch with a projecting keystone and an ovolo-moulded surround. It was undoubtedly erected with the wall in the late 17c but it looks awkward as if made up and adapted from pieces of an earlier arch. Maybe the stones came from the ruins of the monastery which once stood on nearby church hill in the village.

NMR, CITING OS, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV128358.

This is quite an early use of brick in rural devon, a reflection of the status of the duke family who owned the nearby mill and manor house. The initials rd were associated with the date destroyed in the 1967 flood (nmr, citing os).

NMR, CITING DOE 1987, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV128359.

Subrectangular, walled garden of c.0-12ha, contained on 2 sides by a mill leat and overflow channel, on the w side by the river otter and the s by the road. The walls are mostly late 17c, of local, hand- made red brick, with some 19c heightening and patching. The s wall contains an original doorway (probably built from sandstone brought from another building) with a low segmental arch with projecting keystone. A flood in 1967 destroyed part of the w wall (which was then rebuilt) including the initials and date. The garden is associated with mill house, just to the w (nmr, citing doe 1987).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV128360.

Nmr=sy08ne27.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV128361.

Doe/hhr:otterton/(?1949).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV128362.

Doe/hhr:otterton/(-/2/1987)138.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, Untitled Source (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV24.

Vis=30/8/1989 (os) garden walls belonging to mill house. Grade ii. Mostly late 17c patched with later brick. A part rebuilt after it was destroyed by a flood in 1967 once included a date, thought to be 1961 [sic], picked out in black bricks.

Exeter Archaeology, 2003-2004, East Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Archaeological Survey, Site No. 2020 (Archive - Survey). SDV351568.

Otterton Mill. Present mill built 19th century Listed Grade II*. Recorded as Otterton Mills and Yard on Tithe Map/Tithe Apportionment with Mill Meadow to south; owner William Stone/occupier John Uglow (Tithe Apportionment Nos 1231/1232). Leat shown on modern map. 3 mills mentioned in Otterton in Domesday. Possibly on site of medieval mill associated with Otterton Priory. Chiefly grist mill but some fulling. Walls of walled garden mostly 17th century date with possible reused earlier features. Listed Grade II.
SMR; Otterton Tithe Map/Tithe Apportionment 1844/1843.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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