page_title: Peamore, Exminster
section_title: Hippisley-Coxe
hierarchical_section_title: Peamore, Exminster / History / Hippisley-Coxe
caption_attribution_description: English: Peamore House in the parish of Exminster, Devon, watercolour dated June 1794 by Rev. John Swete (d.1821), collection of Devon Record Office, DRO 564M/F1/227
context_page_description: Peamore is an historic country estate in the parish of Exminster, Devon, which is near the city of Exeter. In 1810 Peamore House was described as "one of the most pleasant seats in the neighbourhood of Exeter". The house was remodelled in the early 19th century and is now a grade II listed building.
context_section_description: In 1738, John Hippisley Coxe (1715–1769) of Ston Easton, Somerset, married Mary Northleigh (d.1773), heiress of Peamore. Hippisley Coxe was the builder of the Palladian mansion Ston Easton Park in Somerset.
  John's third son Henry Hippisley Coxe (1748–1795) of Ston Easton Park, Somerset, was MP for Somerset from 1792 to 1795 and died without progeny. The Devon topographer Rev. John Swete (d.1821) visited the area in 1789 and made a sketch of Peamore, from which he made a watercolour painting in 1794. In 1789 he noted in his journal it was then the residence of Sam Strode, Esquire, (d. 29 August 1795), lord of the manor and hundred of Crediton in 1790, who had purchased a life-interest lease from Henry Hippisley Coxe. In 1789 Swete noted concerning Peamore:
  The foregoing sketch was taken near the road leading into the house just within the gate of entrance in the front of a noble and magnificent grove of elms. The building is here seen in its east and south aspect and though low carries with it a venerable look. But the chief beauty of Peamore lies in the undulating form of its grounds, rising and falling in the regular alternation of hills and dales; in its woods, groves and trees and in a quarry which surrounded by a thicket of high towering oaks, beech, etc., is one of the grandest and most romantic objects in the country.
  Swete revisited the area in 1800 and noted in his journal that "Mr Coxe of Peamore" had planted a "crest of firs" on top of a local conical hill owned by him, a "conspicuous knoll of a conical shape", in the parish of Exminster or Alphington, which he compared to a similarly shaped hill at Killerton. Shortly thereafter "H.H. Coxe" sold Peamore to Samuel Kekewich (d.1822), who was the owner in 1810.
caption: Peamore, view from southeast, watercolour dated June 1794 by Rev. John Swete (d.1821), during the Hippisley-Coxe tenure
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