Little Fulford

The landscaped park survives, open on the south side to the public by permissive access, and crossed in parts by public rights of way, with ancient large trees and two sets of ornate entrance gates with a long decorative stone multiple-arched bridge over a large ornamental lake.

[6] The estate was the home successively of the families of Peryam, Tuckfield, Hippisley and lastly the Shelley baronets, in whose possession it remains today.

Fulford House was built by Sir William Peryam (1534–1604) Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, who purchased the estate from Robert Mallet of Wolleigh,[7] in the parish of Beaford, Devon.

Little Fulford was the share of his second daughter Elizabeth Peryam (1571–1635), the wife of Sir Robert Basset (1574–1641), MP, of Umberleigh and Heanton Punchardon, Devon.

It is inscribed in Latin as follows: Which may be translated literally into English as: John II Tuckfield (1555–1630) of Tedburn St Mary, purchased Little Fulford from Robert Basset and thenceforth made it his seat.

John Swete visited Little Fulford and recorded in his journal that the "large woollen manufactory" of the Tuckfield family "has ever since subsisted in these parts".

[12] An elaborate monument survives in Crediton Church, next to Sir William Peryam's, erected by his son Thomas I Tuckfield (c.1585–1642), which shows a sculpted bust of John II Tuckfield on the left, of his son Thomas I on the right and a full figure of the latter's wife Elizabeth Reynell in the centre.

Walter Tuckfield's ledger-stone with details is at the east end of the north aisle, Holy Cross, Crediton.

[9] He was twice MP for Callington in Cornwall, in 1690–5 and 1698–1700, presumably upon the interest of the influential Rolle family of Heanton Satchville, Petrockstowe,[18] cousins of his 2nd wife.

[19] According to Swete, Col. Fulford "May reasonably be supposed to have a predilection for his own inherited mansion to which for the sake of distinction and pre-eminence he would annex the adjunct of "Great".

His monument survives in Dunsford Church, carrying the Fulford arms impaling those of Paulet/Powlet (his first wife, and Tuckfield.

Roger's first wife was Elizabeth daughter of Richard Dowdeswell, MP for Tewkesbury and High Sheriff of Worcestershire.

She also died unmarried, when under the entail it passed to a distant cousin, via the Northleigh family, Richard Hippisley (1774–1844), eldest son of Rev.

John Hippisley (1735–1822) of Stow-in-the-Wold, Gloucestershire by his wife Margaret Cox, eldest daughter of John Hippisley Cox (1715–1769) (builder of the Palladian mansion Ston Easton Park in Somerset) by his wife Mary Northleigh, daughter and heiress of Stephen Northleigh of Peamore, Exminster,[29] son of Henry Northleigh by his wife Susanna Toller, heiress of "Crediton Parks", the former park of the Bishop of Crediton.

She had "ardent zeal for the training of the deaf and dumb and of school masters for the poor" (as commented the Educational pioneer Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 11th Baronet (1809–1898), both of whose wives were Charlotte's nieces) and in about 1836 she built a small school for the purpose at Posbury, a manor long owned by the Tuckfields 4 miles south-west of Little Fulford, in the lane opposite Posbury Chapel, built shortly before by her husband to cater for the rapidly expanding congregation of Crediton Church.

[33] Richard was succeeded by his eldest son John Henry Hippisley-Tuckfield (1801–1880), Sheriff of Devon in 1859 and Deputy Lieutenant of Somerset, who changed the name of the house to Shobrooke Park, after a coffin bound for Great Fulford was delivered in error to himself at Little Fulford, and in the hope of avoiding similar confusions in the future.

Sir Frederic Shelley, 8th Baronet (1809–1869), rector of Bere Ferrers, by his wife Charlotte Martha Hippisley (1812–1893), a daughter of Rev.

Frederic Shelley had been appointed by Richard Hippisley as curate of St Luke's Chapel, Posbury, built by him in 1836.

[37] Shobrooke House was used during the Second World War by St Peter's Court, a preparatory school evacuated from Broadstairs, Kent, and at 4 a.m. on 23 January 1945 whilst full of 70 schoolboys and staff it was destroyed by fire, causing the death of two pupils.

In 2014 he remains patron of St Luke's Chapel, Posbury, 4 miles south-west of Shobrooke, built in 1835 by his ancestor Richard Hippisley Tuckfield (died 1844).

Little Fulford House, Shobrooke, near Crediton, Devon, seat of Henry Tuckfield, Esq. 1797 Watercolour by Rev. John Swete (1752–1821). Later renamed Shobrooke House , demolished pre-1844 and rebuilt nearby in Italianate style. The stream in the foreground, over which a woman is crossing on a plank bridge to left, [ 1 ] was dammed-up in the 19th century landscaping to form a series of ornamental lakes, which survive
Little Fulford House in 1797, viewed from south-west, detail from watercolour by John Swete. The west front (left) is Elizabethan, as built by Sir William Peryam (1534–1604); the south front (right, with bow window) is a Georgian alteration. Swete found the juxtaposition of the two styles "widely incongruous" [ 2 ]
Shobrooke House, built by Richard Hippisley Tuckfield (1774–1844) on or near the site of Little Fulford House which he demolished. Destroyed by fire 23 January 1945 and later demolished
Site of the former mansion Shobrooke House, viewed from north-east, with suburbs of Crediton beyond. The mansion stood on the spot now occupied by the single storey modern bungalow at left. In centre is the long ornamental wall of the "Sundial Terrace". [ 3 ] On the far horizon are the hills of Dartmoor 20 miles to the south-west
Arms of Peryam: Gules, a chevron engrailed between three lion's faces or . Detail from 19th century heraldic stained-glass window in Holy Cross Church, Crediton , bequeathed by Rev. W. M. Smith-Dorrien, Vicar of Crediton
Mural monument to Elizabeth Peryam (1571–1635), wife of Sir Robert Basset. Within a lozenge at the top and on an escutcheon to the sinister are shown her paternal arms of Peryam: Gules, a chevron engrailed or between three lion's faces affrontes of the last . The arms of Peryam are also shown on an oval cartouche underneath, impaled by Basset
Arms of Tuckfield: Argent, three lozenges in fess sable . Detail from 19th century heraldic stained-glass window in Holy Cross Church, Crediton, bequeathed by Rev. W. M. Smith-Dorrien, Vicar of Crediton
Tuckfield Monument in Crediton Church. Left : John II Tuckfield (1555–1630), who purchased Little Fulford; right : Thomas I Tuckfield (1580/90–1642), his son and heir; and centre : Elizabeth Reynell (1593–1630), Thomas's wife. Like the adjoining monument to Sir William Peryam it is situated in a place of great honour, against the north wall of the chancel, near the high altar
Arms of Hippisley of Ston Easton , Somerset: Sable, three mullets pierced in bend between two bendlets or [ 27 ]
Canting arms of Shelley of Michelgrove: Sable, a fesse engrailed between three whelk shells or . [ 34 ] Detail from heraldic window c. 1924 in Crediton Church, Devon, south wall of south transept, bequeathed by Rev. W. M. Smith-Dorrien, Vicar of Crediton