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Downes House is situated about one mile east of Crediton in Devon.[1] The house is an 18th-century Palladian re-modelling of an earlier house.[2] It was classed Grade II* listed on 20 May 1985.[3] Nearby is the site of a Roman villa, revealed by crop-marks as a rectangular enclosure containing a winged-corridor structure.[4] In 2012 the estate comprised 1400 acres, including the Home Farm (419 acres), Fordton Barton (203 acres), Uton Barton (327 acres), Dunscombe Farm (246 acres) and other land 110 acres and parkland.[5]
- ^ Risdon, Tristram (died 1640), Survey of Devon. With considerable additions. London, 1811. p.373
- ^ Cherry & Pevsner, pp.339–40
- ^ "Downes, Crediton Hamlets, Devon".
- ^ Historic England. "Monument No. 918313". Research records (formerly PastScape). Retrieved 8 October 2015.
- ^ Bird, Mr L.C., MRICS, Passmore Wright & Co, Chartered Surveyors of Bideford, Devon, report to Devon County Council dated 30 March 2012 re Agricultural Appraisal on behalf of the Trustees of the Downes Estate for a proposed irrigation lake "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 6 August 2015.
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