Captured on our way into the Sainsbury's at Ottery St. Mary, behind a firmly locked gate, with a sign saying the Chanters House. The tree more or less in the middle of the snap.
The view from somewhere near Sainsbury's, around the corner. Now there are two of them, not necessarily including the first, rather sickly looking one. All very confusing.
I think Chanters House is what you can see if you peer over the wall of the church yard, as snapped towards the end of the post at reference 3. The rather grand place featured at the estate agent at reference 2. Once owned by the Coleridge family responsible for the poet of that name.
For once, Ordnance Survey not terribly helpful and I do better with gmaps Satellite View, with the house bottom right in the park, just to the left of the church, being the only one on offer. With the opening snap above being taken from the entrance in Fairmile Lane centre left. Handy, I suppose, if one wants to avoid the riff-raff in the town.
The label 'college' over the house may be a relic of the time that the church was made collegiate, at the time that it was bought from an outfit in Rouen in 1335.
As far as I can tell, the house comes with the large park. At least, it does not look like farm to me. And according to Wikipedia at reference 4, the current owner is one Max Norris, but the only Norris Bing can find at that address is Charles Edward Norris, described as a cook. Presumably of the television variety. Do they really make that sort of money? All very puzzling.
While the Wellingtonias, probably more than one of them, are in among the band of trees running across the middle of the snap, above the Sainsbury's site.
PS: maybe next time I should knock and explain that I am a Wellingtonia collector and ask if I could visit their park. Do I have the brass to pull it off?
References
Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2022/05/wellingtonia-77.html.
Reference 2: https://pilkingtonestates.co.uk/property/the-chanters-house-ottery-st-mary/. Guide price, £6m. Very grand photos, inside and out.
Reference 3: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2019/10/ottery-st-mary.html.
Reference 4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottery_St_Mary.
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