page_title: Nutwell
section_title: Eliott
hierarchical_section_title: Nutwell / Descent of the manor / Eliott
caption_attribution_description: English: Nutwell Court in the parish of Woodbury, Devon, rebuilt in 1799. View of north front
context_page_description: Nutwell in the parish of Woodbury on the south coast of Devon is a historic manor and the site of a Georgian neo-classical Grade II* listed mansion house known as Nutwell Court. The house is situated on the east bank of the estuary of the River Exe, on low-lying ground nearly contiguous to the water, and almost facing Powderham Castle similarly sited on the west bank. The manor was long held by the powerful Dynham family, which also held adjacent Lympstone, and was according to Risdon the site of their castle until John Dynham, 1st Baron Dynham, the last in the male line, converted it into "a fair and stately dwelling house".
context_section_description: The 2nd Baron Heathfield largely pulled down the old house and built in its place a neo-classical house faced with tiles imitating Portland stone. In May 1799 Swete again visited Nutwell, made a painting of the new house, and recorded in his journal "the new mansion erected by the present proprietor Lord Heathfield, tho' yet unfinished exhibits itself most charmingly to the view" He described him as equally defensive of his privacy as his uncle Sir Francis Drake, denying access to Nutwell and its grounds to neighbours and strangers alike. Lord Heathfield's visits to Nutwell were said to be "seldom and of short duration" Heathfield died unmarried and without progeny.
caption: Nutwell Court, north front rebuilt in 1799
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