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New Shute House is a late Palladian country house built between 1785 and 1789 by Sir John de la Pole, 6th Baronet (1757–1799) and is situated within the grounds of Old Shute House, in the parish of Shute, near Axminster, East Devon. It was given Grade II * listing on 8 May 1967.〔(Listed Building text "Shute House" )〕 It was vacated by the Pole family in 1926 and was let between 1933 to 1974 to a girls' school. In 1974 it was sold by the family to a developer who converted it, together with stables and outbuildings, into 8 freehold apartments.〔Turner, p.6〕 It remains in private ownership and the main block has now been converted back into a single residence from the two vertically divided apartments created in 1974. ==History== The builder's 5 times great-grandfather William Pole Esquire (1515–1587), MP, had purchased Old Shute House in 1560 and had acquired a 1,200 year lease of the surrounding estate in 1562. The old house had been built in 1380 and had been substantially enlarged in the Tudor period and by William Pole's son Sir William Pole (1561–1635), the Antiquary. The 6th baronet, having determined to purchase the freehold of the Shute estate from the Petre family, which was completed in 1787,〔Pulman, George P.R., The Book of the Axe, Bath, 1969, p.765〕 clearly considered the old house to be old-fashioned, and perhaps encouraged by his wife Anne Templer,〔Turner, p.19〕 whose father had just built Stover House in 1777 at Teigngrace near Newton Abbot, he decided to demolish half of it and build a new Palladian house about 1/2 a mile to the south. The demolition was carried out in 1785. The contemporary historiam Polwhele wrote in about 1806:〔Polwhele, Richard, The History of Devonshire, 1793–1806, published 1806, p.315〕
The decision to build was certainly a hasty one as a field of growing corn was cut down to lay the foundations. The family moved to temporary lodging at Colyton House in nearby Colyton where they remained for two years.〔Turner, p.21〕 That part at least of the ancient mansion has survived is unusual, as often in the case of 18th. century re-builds the new house was built on the exact site of the old, which was either completely demolished or incorporated beyond recognition into the new structure.〔c.f. e.g.Castle Hill, Filleigh (1730), Poltimore House, etc.〕 Clearly the old site was considered unsuitable, perhaps being too close to the village and parish church of Shute, and whilst the mediaeval house may have been sited with its defensibility as a prime criterion, the new site was more spectacular and had views to the sea. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「New Shute House」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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