page_title: New Shute House
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: New Shute House / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: New Shute House, Axminster, Devon, view of east pavillion
context_page_description: New Shute House is a late Palladian country house built between 1785 and 1789 by Sir John de la Pole, 6th Baronet and is situated within the grounds of Old Shute House, in the parish of Shute, near Axminster, East Devon. It was given Grade II* listing on 8 May 1967. It was vacated by the Pole family in 1926 and was let between 1933 and 1974 to a girls' school. In 1974 it was sold by the family to a developer who converted it, together with stables and outbuildings, into 8 freehold apartments. It remains in private ownership and the main block has now been converted back into a single residence from the two vertically divided apartments created in 1974.
context_section_description: The house consists of a central stuccoed block of three floors with a basement divided into five bays, with a flanking pavilion of two stories in four bays, to either side connected by low flanking quadrant walls. In the centre of the front is a large classical pedimented portico fronted by four  Ionic columns. The flanking walls screen the service wings behind. The rear elevation  has on either side full-height semi-circular bays. The interior contains much Adam style decorative plasterwork, apparently the work of a certain Mr Powell  referred to in the invoice from the builder Bellman, and ornamental fittings. Robert Adam did much work for the Parkers at Saltram House near Plymouth between 1768–72 and 1779–82. The Poles are likely to have been guests at their neighbours at this time, but in any case as they also spent much time in London at their house in Bedford Square, they would have been familiar with Adam's work in London and elsewhere. The north-east pavilion contains a  theatre of circa 1900. The top floor housed the servants' quarters. The kitchens were originally situated in the left hand pavilion, later converted into a theatre. A large Palladian style stables block is situated around a semi-circular courtyard, several  hundred yards from the house, now converted into several separate residences. It had stabling for twelve horses and accommodation for grooms.
caption: East pavilion, New Shute House, originally the kitchen block, later converted into a theatre, now converted to an apartment
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