Littlecote House 1986

Littlecote House from 1986 following purchase by Peter De Savary.
First built as a medieval mansion during the C13th, a Tudor mansion built mid C16th followed by the present Elizabethan brick mansion, built by Sir John Popham, completed in 1592. Elizabeth I, James I, Charles II, and William of Orange stayed there, William on his march from Torbay to London in the Glorious Revolution. Popham's descendants, the Pophams and (from 1762) the Leyborne Pophams owned the house until the 1920s. The Leyborne Pophams refurbished much of the house in 1810. They retained it until 1929, when the house was purchased by Sir Ernest Wills, 3rd Baronet.