Glazebrook House, South Brent

Glazebrook House is a building of historical significance in South Brent, Devon.

Today it is still a hotel which provides accommodation and restaurant facilities and caters for special events.

[1] It seems that the first major addition to the house was in the early 1800s by William Lee (1768-1837) who was the Mayor of Exeter.

There is a rental advertisement for Glazebrook House in 1821 describing it as a “hunting seat or a residence for a genteel family”.

William Lee was a wealthy property owner who also owned Haccombe House near Exeter.

[5] William Lee died in 1837 and the property was sold to John Lowe, a landed proprietor and Captain in 3rd Lancashire Militia.

His father was William Fawcett Brunskill who owned Buckland Tout Saints in Devon.

In about 1920 due to financial difficulties they decided to sell Buckland Tout Saints.

[15] It was bought by naval commander Algernon Edmund Penrice Penrice-Lyons, the youngest son of Sir Algernon McLennan Lyons, Commander in Chief of Plymouth Naval Base and Admiral of both the Pacific and American Fleets, and relation to Elizabeth Bowes Lyons, Queen Mother (who, it is said, visited her cousin at Glazebrook during his ownership).