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A surviving sketch of Ashe mansion, Musbury, Devon. The original house was probably
built in the 14th Century. The chapel was licensed 27 April 1387 (seen just behind
the left wing). It was enlarged about 1583. Ashe burned in 1644
during the Civil War. It was rebuilt by Sir John Drake 1669-1683, and this is
the building pictured above. It was a an E-shaped structure with three
wings in the Tudor style. It burned again in 1787, and only one wing, the
northern, survived.
(George P. R. Pulman, The Book of the Axe, 1878)