FOLLOWING a pre-Christmas launch, Oliver Custance Baker of Strutt & Parker’s country department (020–7591 2207) leads the way in the West Country with the sale, at a guide price of £5.75 million, of ‘one of the finest houses on Dartmoor in arguably the best location just outside Chagford’. The ancient and thriving Devon market town is within the Dartmoor National Park, 20 miles west of the cathedral city of Exeter. From the 1930s to the 1950s, the town’s former Easton Court Hotel was a popular writers’ retreat, where Evelyn Waugh reputedly completed A Handful of Dust in 1933 and Brideshead Revisited in 1944.
According to its Historic England listing, Grade II-listed Outer Down was built ‘in a restrained Tudor style’ in 1911 for a Miss Jameson
