Avishays

Today N and I drove onto the Blackdowns to meet some friends from Cullompton for lunch at the Candlelight pub.  Afterwards we drove home through Combe St Nicholas to Chard  and on to the A30.  When we were near Cricket St Thomas the road was completely closed both ways after a nasty accident and we were diverted onto narrow hidden lanes that were all new to us.  Suddenly this house came into view, a house we never knew existed!  There has been a dwelling here since the 14C but this house was originally built in the 17C.  It is Grade II listed and there is a folly clock tower on the hill behind called the Monmouth Tower.  The clock was taken from Highclere Castle in Hampshire.  The Browne and Sealy families once lived here and then a Chard solicitor bought it in 1859. And that is all we know!