Mamhead House. Mamhead House, Mamhead, Devon is a country house dating from 1827.
Its origins are older but the present building was constructed for Robert William Newman, an Exeter merchant, in 1827-1833 by Anthony Salvin. The house is Grade I listed.
The parkland has its own Grade II* Listing. It was for a time known as Dawlish College.
The Mamhead estate is recorded in the Domesday Book as belonging to Ralph de Pomeroy. It was subsequently owned by the Carew and Balle families, and then the Earls of Lisburne until it was bought by Robert Newman in 1823.
In the 1770s, Capability Brown had undertaken landscaping of the grounds. Newman was the senior partner in Newman & Co., a trading company based in Exeter that had established a small shipping fleet to support its trade with Portugal and Newfoundland. The original mansion house of the Balle's had been demolished in the late 18th century and shortly after purchasing the estate, Newman commissioned Charles Fowler to design a new house. Fowler's Italianate plans did not find favour and Fowler had got not further than constructing the footings before he was replaced by Anthony Salvin. At 26, Mamhead was Salvin's first important commission and it made his reputation. His designs for the house were in the Tudor Revival style, then a relatively new architectural approach, and incorporated the initials of Newman and his new wife, together with the
Its origins are older but the present building was constructed for Robert William Newman, an Exeter merchant, in 1827-1833 by Anthony Salvin. The house is Grade I listed.
The parkland has its own Grade II* Listing. It was for a time known as Dawlish College.
The Mamhead estate is recorded in the Domesday Book as belonging to Ralph de Pomeroy. It was subsequently owned by the Carew and Balle families, and then the Earls of Lisburne until it was bought by Robert Newman in 1823.
In the 1770s, Capability Brown had undertaken landscaping of the grounds. Newman was the senior partner in Newman & Co., a trading company based in Exeter that had established a small shipping fleet to support its trade with Portugal and Newfoundland. The original mansion house of the Balle's had been demolished in the late 18th century and shortly after purchasing the estate, Newman commissioned Charles Fowler to design a new house. Fowler's Italianate plans did not find favour and Fowler had got not further than constructing the footings before he was replaced by Anthony Salvin. At 26, Mamhead was Salvin's first important commission and it made his reputation. His designs for the house were in the Tudor Revival style, then a relatively new architectural approach, and incorporated the initials of Newman and his new wife, together with the
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