Designation:
All on Devon Local List
Type:
- Parkland
- Walled Kitchen Garden
Parish:
Cruwys Morchard
Local Authority:
Mid Devon
OS Grid Ref:
SS 84 112
Map no.:
Landranger 181
Description:
The early medieval manor house of the Cruwys family. The late C17-18 front conceals the earlier building. White (1850) noted that it had ‘lately been enlarged and modernized, and has a tasteful and well-wooded park, mostly planted in 1834-5.’Stockdale described it as ‘an ancient mansion pleasingly situated on a gentle eminence contiguous to the church’.
Listed Buildings
Cruwys Morchard House and walls to walled garden Grade II*, gate piers Grade II
References
Cherry & Pevsner: The Buildings of England – Devon, 1989: 302
T Gray: The Garden History of Devon,1995: 83-4
