page_title: New Shute House
section_title: Grounds
hierarchical_section_title: New Shute House / Description / Grounds
caption_attribution_description: English: Shute: Old Stables, New Shute House, Shute, Devon. Looking north west
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 site of New Shute House is sloping from the front to the back of the house, which allows for an uninterrupted view of the distant sea.  The Poles may have been influenced by the landscaping at Mount Edgecumbe House near Plymouth,  Saltram and Killerton House. Pole employed John Veitch, Sir Thomas Acland's head gardener at Killerton, as his landscape designer, who contracted in 1790 to complete the works, which included the making of new roads and fences,  by 29 September 1794. Pole  planted a large number of young trees, including 1,000 larch and 950 Spruce, as an invoice from the firm Gould Smith dated November 1797 records. Veitch also made the new road to Shute village beyond the Elizabethan Shute Gatehouse ("the Old Lodge") and onward to the road leading to "Shute Piers", about one mile away. The contract specifies: "Toward the lodge...let the road be sunk three feet deeper than the ground is at present as it passes between the Old House and the Church to give more room under the Lodge and also to produce ground for forming the plantation each side intended to cover the said Old House, stables and the churchyard; also to form a plantation ground by raising it up for planting against the walls on each side of the lodge so as when planted and grown-up the said lodge may only appear between the said plantations". Bridie had noted in her work that the lower windows of the gatehouse were now below ground level, but had not ascertained the reason.
caption: The stable block, New Shute House
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