241:, then a modest farmhouse with 162 acres, and spent a large sum on transforming it into a gentleman's residence and hunting lodge, by the addition of three wings. He borrowed money from Servington Savery (1787â1856), a solicitor and Receiver of Crown Rents in Modbury. In 1838 Savery foreclosed on the mortgage and entered into possession of Fowelscombe and also purchased from King the estate of Hayford. He stripped Fowelscombe of its fittings, including a Jacobean staircase, wooden panelling and a turret clock made in 1810 by Samuel Northcotte of Plymouth, which survives today at Hayford. In 1856 following a lengthy lawsuit, John King recovered possession of Fowelscombe from Savery, but was still in financial difficulties. After his death it was sold in 1865.
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126:(died 1507) was Thomas Fowell (died 1544) (son of Thomas Fowell by his wife a member of the Bevil family of Cornwall) who in 1537 rebuilt the manor house at Fowelscombe. His great-grandson Richard Fowell (died 1594) of Fowelscombe had four sons, one of whom was William Fowell (1556â1636) who founded the junior branch of the family seated at Black Hall (within the manor of Fowelscombe) in the parish of
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Fowelscombe and other estates in Ugborough and adjoining parishes for which "the county is greatly indebted". They were the last occupants of the manor house and after their departure it fell into ruins sometime between 1860 and 1880, and is
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William Pole (who did not record his first name) was an attorney during the reign of King Henry IV (1399â1413). His eventual successor Sir Thomas Fowell (born 1453), a member of the King's court, is recorded as being born at Fowelscombe, implying that there
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Hampshire and his tenant at Fowelscombe was a Mr Hosking, who looked after his hounds there. Also in 1836 the huntsman, Pinhay, "lives in Mr. King's house, at Fowlescombe, without paying rent, and his horse is kept in the stable at the kennel". According to Tozer
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In 1890 the estate was bought by Rev. Gordon
Walters. In 1919 it was split up and sold, with the remains of Fowelscombe House being included as part of the Bolterscombe estate farm which was sold to Reginald Nicholls. Bolterscombe and the ruins of the house were sold to the Burden family in
176:(1689â1692), who died unmarried aged 26, when the baronetcy became extinct. His heirs were his two surviving sisters, Elizabeth and Margaret who until 1711 held the Fowell estates of Fowelscombe and Ludbrooke jointly. In 1679 Elizabeth married George Parker (1651â1743) of
284:. The 17th-century stable block was built around a courtyard, which may also have been the location of the kennels for the pack of hounds used for fox and deer hunting. The late 18th-century bridge leading to the manor house is also Grade II listed.
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Richard Barker (1946â2015) purchased the estate in 1998 and began a restoration of
Bolterscombe Farm, renamed as Fowlescombe Farm. As of 2018 it was an organic farm of nearly 300 acres, known as Fowlescombe.
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In 1758 Mr
Herbert of Plymouth purchased the estate from the Champernownes. The house was enlarged in the 18th century. His son George Herbert sold it to Thomas King in 1780.
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in Devon in 1455. His great-grandfather Thomas Fowell of
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for two years 1827-9, when they were known as "Mr. King's Hounds", having re-established the pack. In 1817 he purchased the nearby estate of
Hayford, near
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survives only as an ivy-covered "romantic ruin" overgrown by trees and nettles, situated 1 mile south-east of the village of
Ugborough. The ruins are a
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