Ashe House in Musbury Devon was once a majestic Tudor pile built in the mid-1580s but badly burned by Royalists in 1644. It was rebuilt in the subsequent decades but then partially dismantled in 1782. What survives today remains significant and perpetuates the history of a house on this site possibly since Saxon era! More recently, John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough & Sir Winston’s ancestor, was baptised in the house’s neighbouring chapel, itself dated to the late 1300s. Some however insist he was born here too. Ashe is also known locally as Drake House, and there apparently survive design features suggesting it was once home to that family whose name needs no explanation. After all, the local inn is named The Hind.
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