Crowcombe Court

An English Baroque house of 1739, and one of the fewer than two percent of listed structures in England graded the first rank.

Stockbridge acquired Crowcombe Court in 2019 and holds it within The Gilchrist Collection. It is among the most architecturally distinguished houses in the West of England.

Provenance

Crowcombe Court was designed by Nathaniel Ireson, whose hand is also found at Stourhead, in the English Regional Baroque manner that bridges the Queen Anne and Georgian periods. The Carew family held it until the nineteen-sixties, and the ballroom was remodelled in 1870 by Edward Barry.

The Great Hall retains its original Italian plasterwork. The Carew Room carries the family arms in its original flooring, and the vaulted undercroft, once the winter stores, survives intact. The house was restored over seventeen years before Stockbridge acquired it.

The Grounds

Seven acres of restored grounds hold a walled garden, a wildlife lake, an orchard, hydrangea beds and a formal North Garden. Wild deer and pheasant move through the estate, with the Quantock Hills beyond.

Within

The Great Hall, the Victorian ballroom and the Carew Room form the principal interiors, with the vaulted undercroft among the most distinctive private rooms in the South West. The house holds twelve bedrooms and four further apartments.

Stockbridge holds Crowcombe Court for the long term, its Grade I fabric maintained and stewarded rather than realised.