Stock Gaylard House

The Domesday Book of 1086 recorded that the tenant-in-chief of Stock Gaylard was William of Eu, and that the lord of the manor was Hugh Maltravers. There were eleven households in the village. The 1332 subsidy roll recorded that there were five householders who were taxpayers. From 1585 the property was owned by the Lewys family. The present house is thought to date from the early 18th century. In 1773, on the death of John Farr, brother-in-law of Charles Lewys, his daughter Theophila inherited the estate; in 1779 she married John Berkeley Burland (1754–1804), son of Sir John Burland. His family owned the manor of Steyning, and from 1802 he was MP for Totnes. He had the house remodelled and…

The house has rubble walls, with external rendering. The east front is symmetrical, having a pedimented central pavilion of three bays, flanked on each side by two bays. The central door has stone pilasters supporting a dentilled pediment. There are two storeys, and an attic above. A license to empark deer was granted in 1268, and it is thought that a herd has been here since that time. The size of the deer park is about 80 acre. There are about 120 adult deer, with about thirty fawns being born each year.