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Summary

Site of a series of successive houses, the first probably dating from the 15th century, the last erected or enlarged in the later 19th century. Demolished in 1928.

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Membland Hall Parkland and Gardens. Victorian landscaped park including cropmarks of a medieval enclosure, a quarry pit of probable post-medieval date and World War One slit trenches and earthwork remains of a catch meadow of probable post medieval date

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX54NE/4

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• COUNTRY HOUSE (Early 20th Century - 1928 AD to 1928 AD)

Full description

Ordnance Survey, 1880-1899, First Edition Ordnance Survey 25 inch map (Cartographic). SDV336179.

'Membland Hall' shown. Map object based on this source.

Reichel, O. J., 1928 - 1938, The Hundreds of Devon: The Hundred of Ermington in Early Times, 296,297,308,315,316,330 (Article in Monograph). SDV177050.

Membland was Mimidlauda in Domesday. It was held by Waldin of Judel of Totnes. Early descents given.

Copeland, G. W., 1936, An early fireplace at Membland Hall, 355-357, Pl. 23 (Article in Serial). SDV149720.

Mansion, Membland hall. Shattered remains of successive houses built on the site. The present house was probably erected or enlarged by Edward Charles Baring (the rear of the west wing bears the date 1877). Demolished in 1928. Difficult to discover whether the house stood on the same site as its predecessors, the first of which seems to date from the first half of the 15th century. Worked, but indeterminate, pieces of granite lie about in scattered groups, suggesting an earlier house. Part of an early fireplace found among debris of the middle block of the house. In late perpendicular style, late 15th-early 16th century. Faces west and is in eastern half of the middle block. The top of the clavel is semi-elliptical and follows the contour of the arch below it. The square headed architrave has outer cavetto, and inner roll mouldings, a narrow one between the two wider ones. The spandrils show deeply sunk round lobed quatrefoils in the slightly sunk circular panels, and apparently horizontal pinnate leaves in relief. In a field south-east of the house are a few pieces of worked granite, among which is the damaged spandril of another arch, probably a doorway, with a sunk quatrefoil, with clear chamfered edges; but instead of the 'leaf' is a sunk triangle, also with chamfered edges, while the outer architrave shows a pronounced roll moulding, and the arch itself and outer roll and an inner cavetto moulding. The fireplace has been erected at Treluggan Manor House, Landrake, Cornwall.

Pearson, A., 2007, Noss Mayo, Devon: Rising Main Rapid Desk-Based Assessment, 4 (Report - Assessment). SDV346466.

Waterhouse, R., 2009, Report on visit to Beacon Hill Tea House (Report - non-specific). SDV366678.

The Bulteel family lived at Membland in the 18th century. It was bought by Sir Philip Perring who is said to have rebuilt the house which then passed to his nephew, Sir John Perring. He sold it to Robert Robertson in 1829 who lived there until the 1850s. In the 1860s the estate was bought by Edward Baring, of Barings Bank (he had married Louisa Bulteel in 1861). He undertook many improvements to the estate before the collapse of Barings Bank forced him to sell in 1891.

Clark, J., 2013, Membland (Un-published). SDV358108.

Ordnance Survey, 2015, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV357601.

Map object based on this source.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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