High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Holcombe Court is a large Grade I listed Tudor manor house in the parish of Holcombe Rogus in Devon. It was built by Sir Roger Bluett circa 1540 and was held by the family until 1858 when Peter Frederick Bluett sold the estate to Rev. William Rayer, Rector of Tidcombe near Tiverton. The manor of Holcombe Rogus had been acquired by the Bluett family in the early 15th.c. following the marriage of John Bluett lord of the manor of neighbouring Greenham, in Somerset, about 1 1/2 miles north-east of Holcombe Rogus, to Maude Chesildon, daughter and co-heiress of John Chesildon (d.1420) of Holcombe Rogus, whose other daughter and co-heiress married William Wadham, ancestor of Nicholas Wadham (1531/2–1609), founder of Wadham College, Oxford. The Bluett family also owned nearby Cothay Manor (2 1/2 miles to the north-east), rebuilt in 1481 by Richard Bluett. It is situated immediately to the west of the parish church. The grounds are screened off...

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