Castle Hill Filleigh Devon England UK Palladian House built Hugh Fortescue country mansion Grade II listed building Parkland
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This is an illustration from ‘Picturesque views of Scots of Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland’ Castle Hill in Filleigh parish, North Devon, is a privately owned Palladian House built in 1730 by Hugh Fortescue, 14th Baron Clinton (1696–1751), also created in 1751 1st Baron Fortescue and 1st Earl of Clinton, son of Hugh Fortescue. It is a rare example in Devon of an 18th. c. country mansion on the grand scale, and forms a highly impressive, unmissable and even dominating sight from the public highway which was, until 1988 when the A361 North Devon Link Road was opened, the main road west to Barnstaple and which appears purposely to meander past to afford the traveller maximum viewing opportunities. It was designated a Grade II* listed building in 1967. Today the property is owned by Eleanor, Countess of Arran, the granddaughter of Hugh Fortescue, 5th Earl Fortescue (1888-1958). The other historic Fortescue family residence, Ebrington Manor, in Gloucestershire, a very modest building in comparison, remains the seat of the Earls Fortescue. Hugh Fortescue (1696–1751), who in 1721 inherited the title 14th Baron Clinton, via his mother, consulted Lord Burlington (1694-1753), the pioneer and arbiter of palladianism in England, on the design of his proposed new mansion. In 1728/9 he appointed Burlington's favoured builder Roger Morris to reface the house in portland stone. The former hall was remodelled as a double-height saloon.