Ugbrooke House

In 1550, Ugbrooke was sold to Sir Piers Courtenay of Powderham Castle and when Sir Pier’s widow died in 1604, the estate was inherited by their grandson, Thomas Clifford; the estate remains in the Clifford family today. The house was rebuilt in the late seventeenth century and again between 1763 and 1768 when Hugh, 4^th Lord Clifford appointed Robert Adam as architect. Lancelot Brown had been asked to draw up plans for the house in 1760 but losing out to Adam, Brown was asked back to Ugbrooke in c1770 to layout a new park and adapt the existing formal garden. The gardens include a nineteenth century orangery and parterre, shrubs and herbaceous borders mainly replanted in the twentieth century with informal areas of lawn planted with trees and shrubs.