Orleigh Court

Orleigh Court is a late medieval manor house in the parish of Buckland Brewer about 4 miles (6.4 km) south-west of Bideford, North Devon, England.

It is a two-storeyed building constructed from local slate stone and has a great hall with a hammer-beam roof, installed in the late 15th century.

[2] The hammer-beams are supported on carved stone corbels representing figures, one of which holds a shield displaying the arms of the Denys family (three battleaxes).

John I Davie died in 1710 and is commemorated by a large mural monument in the Orleigh Chapel of St Mary's Church, Buckland Brewer.

These included, in the hall, the installation of an ornamental fireplace,[2] and the addition of fire buckets decorated with the Davie arms and the date 1721 — they remained in place until the early 20th century.

In that year Orleigh Court was either sold, or according to local tradition, lost in a game of cards, to Major Edward Lee.

[3] William Henry Rogers was an antiquarian and he included a history of Orleigh Court in a booklet about Buckland Brewer, published in 1938.