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Affeton Castle
Affeton Castle is the surviving late-medieval gatehouse of a fortified manor house near East Worlington, Devon, built by the Stucley family around 1434. The larger manor was largely destroyed in the 1640s; the gatehouse was later restored and converted into a private residence and hunting lodge. It is a Grade II* listed building and remains privately owned.
Its prime
1434
Today
Restored
As it stood in 1434
What Affeton Castle looked like in its prime.
A long rectangular two-storey gatehouse of grey rubble stone about 60 by 22 feet, with a crenellated parapet crowning a flat roofline and several tall square chimneys rising above. The long stone facades are punctured by narrow mullioned windows and a dominant central tall arched passageway, now partly infilled but originally open for access to an inner courtyard. The building sits on the side of a shallow valley with trees and grass around its base, stone buttresses at the corners.
Its story
The story of Affeton Castle.
Affeton Castle is the surviving gatehouse of a large fortified manor house built of grey rubble stone by the Stucley family in about 1434, on the side of a valley of the Little Dart River near East Worlington in Devon. The Stucleys acquired the estate when Hugh Stucley, Sheriff of Devon in 1448, married the heiress Catherine de Affeton.
The manor house was destroyed in the Civil War of the 1640s, and by the early 19th century the gatehouse stood in ruins. Sir George Stucley, 1st Baronet restored it in 1868–69 as a shooting box for the family, then seated at Hartland Abbey and Moreton House, Bideford, and it became known as Affeton Castle.
When Moreton Hall was sold off in 1956, the gatehouse was converted into the main private residence of Sir Dennis Stucley, 5th Baronet, and Sir Hugh Stucley, 6th Baronet lives there in the 21st century. Its tall arch, through which people and vehicles once passed to the inner courtyard, is now partly filled in to form a smaller front door. The building is Grade II* listed and not open to the public.
Step inside
6 places to explore in 1434.
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Clans who held Affeton Castle.
The families that held Affeton Castle for a decade or more across its history, follow a name to its clan.
Stucley
Held by the Stucley family since about 1434, after Hugh Stucley married the heiress Catherine de Affeton; the Stucley baronets live there still.
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