| Cothay Manor | |
|---|---|
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  Location within Somerset | |
| General information | |
| Architectural style | Medieval |
| Town or city | Stawley, near Wellington |
| Country | England |
| Coordinates | 50°59′01″N 3°18′17″W / 50.9837°N 3.3048°W |
| Completed | c1480 |
Cothay Manor is a grade one listed medieval house and gardens, in Stawley, near Wellington, Somerset. The manor grounds consist of almost 40 acres and include cottages, outbuildings, stables, and 12 acres of gardens.[1][2]
The manor is Grade I listed on the National Heritage List for England, and its gate piers and wall to the north entrance of the house are listed Grade II.[3][4]
In the early 14th century the lord of the manor was the de Cothay family, whose heir was the Bluett family, later from the early 15th century lords of the manor of Holcombe Rogus in Devon, also of nearby Greenham Barton.[5]
Built around 1480,[6] its listing cites it as an unusually well-conserved, neat collection of buildings before 1500 in England.[7] The rent for the land surrounding the manor in the medieval era was a pair of silver spurs and a rose. To celebrate the end of the Cousins' Wars, in the Tudor rose iconography of the time, a red rose (for Lancashire), and a white rose (for Yorkshire), were planted on the terrace by Richard Bluett, who was the lord of the manor at the time.[7]
In 1927, historian Christopher Hussey wrote in Country Life that this manor house was "the most perfect small 15th‐century country house that survives in the Kingdom".[8]
- ^ A Medieval Manor West of London Lists for $6.55 Million
- ^ Cothay Manor : The Gardens
- ^ Historic England, "Cothay Manor (1176185)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 12 October 2017
- ^ Historic England, "Gate Piers and Wall to North Entrance of Cothay Manor (1307999)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 12 October 2017
- ^ Ford, Michael. "Bluett Family Mansions in Somerset, Devon & Cornwall". Britania Country Houses. Archived from the original on 13 January 2010. Retrieved 30 April 2009. The Bluett family lived at Holcombe Court until 1858.
- ^ Historic England, "Cothay Manor (1176185)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 17 October 2008
- ^ a b "'Romantic' Cothay Manor's garden delights". BBC Somerset. Retrieved 9 December 2008.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Visit Somerset: History and Heritage