Forms of Stevenstone House Stevenstone
stevenstone, north devon, seat of right honourable lord rolle . drawn g.b. campion, engraved james bingley, published r.jennings & w. chaplin, 62 cheapside, london, 1831. library room visible left
the orangery, stevenstone house, st giles in wood, devon. built john rolle (1679-1730), mp, c. 1715-1730. showing remnant of pinetum
the earliest record of form of manor house given john leland (died 1552), wrote : there hamlet longging tarington toun not mile est tarington coullid s. gilys, wher george rolles hath buildid right fair house of bryke . said hoskins (1954) have been first brick-built house in devon. letter survives dated 1539 george rolle illustrious client s wife lady lisle poor house of stevenstone.
two palladian outbuildings serving orangery , library room built next house john rolle (1679-1730), mp, , library shows above keystone of central arch arms of rolle impaling arms of walter baronets of sarsden, oxfordshire, family of wife isabella walter (died 1734). hoskins states manor house rebuilt or remodelled sometime in 18th century, pevsner states c. 1709, perhaps therefore @ same time building of outbuildings. engraving of georgian house survives, james bingley, published in 1831.
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