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Nutwell in the parish of Woodbury on the south coast of Devon is a historic manor and the site of a Georgian neo-classical Grade II* listed mansion house known as Nutwell Court. The house is situated
Nutwell Court in the parish of Woodbury, Devon. The "exquisitely precise and austere neo-classical mansion" rebuilt in 1799. West front (River Exe front)
Nutwell Court, built circa 1800 by Francis Augustus Eliott, 2nd Baron Heathfield (1750–1813), on the site of an earlier house
The newly rebuilt Nutwell Court as painted by Rev. John Swete (d.1821) during his travels of May 1799. Viewed from River Exe estuary
"Old Nutwell, seat of late Sir Francis Drake". Undated watercolour by Rev. John Swete (died 1821) made before 1799 when the present neo-classical house was built in its place
Sir Francis Henry Drake, 5th Baronet was an English Master of the Household and Member of Parliament.
Nutwell
…Francis had married as his third wife Elizabeth Pollexfen, Henry's sister. Nutwell descended into the Drake family of Buckland. The last in the male line Sir Francis Drake, 5th Baronet (1723–1794) is said by Hoskins (1954) "to have wrecked the fine medieval house with his improvements demolishing the two-storied gatehouse with great…
Memorial by John Bacon, Senior in St Andrew's Church, Buckland Monachorum