page_title: Burnville House, Brentor
section_title: Early owners
hierarchical_section_title: Burnville House, Brentor / Early owners
caption_attribution_description: English: Sale notice Burnville Lodge, 1860
context_page_description: Burnville House in Brentor, West Devon, England, is a building of historical significance and is Grade II listed on the English Heritage Register. It was built in about 1800, possibly by William Sleman, who was a wealthy landowner and described as "a gentleman". It was the home of several notable families over the next two centuries. Today it provides bed and breakfast accommodation and has self-catering cottages.
context_section_description: The map of Brentor of 1809 shows that the Burnville Estate was then called East Langstone (or Longstone). At this time it was owned by William Sleman (1780-1814) who possibly built the house. In 1802 he married Agnes Cundy (1776-1831) who was also from the parish of Lamerton and the couple had three children. Unfortunately William died in 1814. The death notice is given at this reference. In the same year the house and the nearby farm were advertised separately as rental properties. The notice is shown. The house is described in the following terms.
  "It consists of an elegant mansion having an entrance hall, very handsome dining and drawing rooms of large dimensions with a good sized breakfast room, five bedrooms equally proportional (excluding servants rooms), an excellent kitchen, back kitchen, dairy, cheese house and salting room with stone troughs, pump etc. Two large underground cellars, a wine cellar, excellent stables with suitable outbuildings."
  In 1819 the whole of William Sleman’s property was sold including East Langstone. A description of the large number of assets that he owned in the Tavistock area is given in this reference. John James and his wife Anne bought the East Langstone estate. He renamed the house “Burnville Lodge” but retained the name of the nearby East Langstone Farm. Later the whole of the estate was called Burnville.
  John James (1794-1854) was part of a family listed in Burke’s Landed Gentry. He was born in 1794 and in 1815 married Anne Herring (1795-1832) who was the daughter John Pyne Herring who owned the West Langstone Estate which is shown on the above map. The couple had one son. John became the Deputy Lieutenant of Devon. Anne died in 1832 and in 1835 he married Patience Luxmoore who was the daughter of Thomas Bridgman Luxmoore of Fair Place Okehampton. They had two children. John died in 1854 and Patience continued to live at the house until 1860 when it was advertised for sale. The house was a rental property until about 1875 when it was bought by Mary Ann Ward.
caption: Sale notice for Burnville 1860
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