The West awakes
AFTER a strangely languid start to the year, the country-house market in Devon and Cornwall has picked up the pace, with the launch onto the market of a quartet of notable country properties in enviable locations.
Lindsay Cuthill of Savills (020–7016 3820) quotes a guide price of ‘excess £6 million’ for secluded, Grade II-listed Hayne Old Manor, which stands in 70 acres of gardens, grounds and parkland in a magical hidden valley on the edge of Dartmoor, less than a mile from the pretty village of Moretonhampstead and 13 miles from Exeter.
According to local records, the ‘very ancient large Estate and House’ of Hayne was owned for centuries by the Nosworthy family of Sloncombe until, in 1730, the last Nosworthy heiress, Judith, married a Southmead
