The site of the original manor house is high on a hill overlooking the River Ottery to the S, near the main road from Honiton to Exeter.
The present house of local grey stone and flint rubble, with Beerstone details, incorporates some earlier stone, including the mid-16th c. entrance doorway with Sir Peter Carew's initials carved in the spandrels.
The 16th c. gatehouse and a 2-room former cider house with a massive period fireplace survived the fire. It is possible that the cider house incorporates a room (now much altered) of the 16th c. manor house.
A probable performance venue. Although household accounts for the Carew family do not survive for this period, there is evidence that minstrels patronized by members of the Carew family performed in Exeter in the 15th and 16th c. It is likely that they also performed at Mohun's Ottery for their patrons.
Privately owned.
by 1303 Sir John Carew acquired the manor of Mohun's Ottery via marriage to Eleanor, daughter and co-heir of Sir William Mohun.
mid-16th c. The medieval manor house was replaced by a Tudor residence built on a quadrangular plan during Sir Peter Carew's occupation.
ca. 1575 Thomas Southcote of Bovey Tracy, Devon, acquired the property via marriage to Thomasine Kirkham, niece of Sir Peter Carew.
ca. 1678 Manor purchased by Sir Walter Yonge.
1793 Purchased by William Hawker. The house was occupied as a farmhouse.
1868 Fire destroyed the original house. Farmhouse on a U-plan rebuilt on or close to the original site.
REED Devon 96, 148
| Name | Dates | Titles |
|---|---|---|
| Carew, Nicholas | 1400-1449 | Baron of , Baron |
| Carew, Peter | 1510-1575 | Knight |
