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the site of the manor house and dovecot. xlv Foundations of a house were said to have beenfound but there is no evidence to support Gerard‟s statement that there was a park there. xlviCulverhay, with dovecot and a house built c.1593 xlvii was last recorded in 1652 xlviii but in1841 a cottage near the mill was called Pigeon House. xlixHazlegrove HouseHazlegrove farm, described as a demesne grange in 1536, l was occupied by the demesnefarmers including William Morris, his widow and her second husband John Smith (d. 1558),John‟s son William, William‟s wife Mary Sanford and her second husband John Warre. li In1561 Hazlegrove was a modest house with hall, parlour and chamber on the ground floor,chambers over the hall and parlour, maid‟s and men‟s chambers, and a large, possiblydetached, kitchen with cheeseroom. That matches a drawing of 1573, which shows a threestorey,two or three bay house with a massive chimney or wing flanked by door and windowsand a smaller gable end chimney. A detached building to the west, linked to the house by awall, has a large upper window or louver. liiThe Mildmays rarely visited Queen Camel before the mid 17th century. HenryHebdich lived there from 1593 and the Rose family until the 1630s or later. liii By 1652 therewere both farm and mansion houses on the site and the younger Humphrey Mildmay residedin the latter. liv Carew Hervey Mildmay in 1713 had a coach way from Sparkford near the innthere probably to the coach house, reserved with the mansion from a lease of Hazlegrove in1719. lv He largely rebuilt the house in the 1730s and tax was paid on 94 windows in 1789. lviCarew and his son resided for short periods but also had houses in Sherborne and London aswell as Marks in Essex, demolished 1808. lvii Their successors were non-resident and thehouse was let furnished to Elizabeth (d. 1791), dowager countess of Glasgow and in 1793 toElizabeth Acland (d. 1807). lviii John Armstrong held it with 51 a. of grounds in the early 19th
century. lix In 1827 Paulet, second son of Lady Jane StJohn Mildmay brought his family tolive at Hazlegrove. lx Paulet (d. 1845) and his second son Hervey (1882) were responsible formajor alterations to the house and grounds including the demolition of the farm, which hadstood next to the mansion house. By c.1881 the three-storey house included basement cellars,a billiard room and a 12-bedroom top floor. lxiAfter 1845 the house was let out again except between 1886 and 1893. Tenantsincluded Mrs Strangways and Katherine, duchess of Westminster. In 1929 the house was soldto Major H. Stern and many fittings, some imported from elsewhere, were removed lxii before1935 when he sold it to Major Ellis Nuttall (d. 1951). It was used as a convalescent homeduring the Second World War, first by the Red Cross and in 1944 by the Admiralty. Since1947 it has been occupied by the junior school of King‟s School, Bruton, which bought itbefore 1958. Blocks of classrooms, a swimming pool, a hall and a chapel have been built onthe site. lxiiiThe 16th-century house survives, including the parlour with a framed ceiling withfloral motifs in thin-rib plaster panels, behind the hipped three-storey house of c.1730, whichhas a seven-bay ashlar south front and plain three-bay north-east range. Openings arecorniced below and pedimented on the first floor, gaping now with plate-glass replacingsmall panes. The north-east lias block has ashlar frames. Carew Mildmay‟s brotherHumphrey allegedly designed it based on a palace in Genoa, but no model can be identified.John Bastard of Blandford was at least responsible for the interior but probably not the northeastdining-room whose panelling, reputedly from Mildmay‟s house at Newington Green,London and in Grinling Gibbons style, has been in America since its sale to WilliamRandolph Hearst in 1929. The present early 18th-century marble chimney-piece was formerlyupstairs. The front entrance hall, study and drawing-room have painted large-field panels, thehall with acanthus cornice and columned doorcase and the hall and drawing-room have
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