Gulliford Farm

By 1692, Thomas Lee, a local businessman and yeoman of the parish of Woodbury, was living at Gulliford when he leased out land on the south of the estate for the construction of a nonconformist chapel.

[2] It was the 2nd Baron Heathfield that from 1780 to 1799 destroyed all but the chapel of the original Nutwell, and rebuilt the house, whilst briefly living at Gulliford.

[5] The estate was largely modernised from its traditional feudal origins under the Hallett family, collateral descendants of Lord Heathfield, from 1820 onwards.

[6] Gulliford led agricultural industrial drives in the area, hosting traction engine rallies and being one of the first estates to have a self-propelling combine harvester in England.

[6] In 1979, June Hallett – the wife of the then-owner of the farm, uncovered plaster of paris frescoes on the inner walls of a fireplace in the house.

Plaster of Paris work in the Drawing Room fireplace