Ashley Court is a privately owned Regency country house and walled kitchen garden bordering the River Exe. Former home to three of Tiverton’s mayors, the property remains largely unaltered since the early 1800’s. This year, visitors are invited to experience the house and garden as part of Devon Open Studios.

Sam Photic uses his vivid imagination and large scale thinking to create art that fuses the practical and fanciful.

Outside the house Andy Lendzion’s stunning pair of frisky bronze unicorns invite you into a world of beauty and fun.

Inside, Mark Entwisle’s paintings perfectly capture the atmosphere and textures of the house’s interiors, they are displayed in the main hall.  He will be running a workshop on Saturday 19th.

Stephanie Buttle creates her reaction to the history of Tiverton and of the house to give you food for thought.

Ashley Court was Zoe Jones’ childhood home for 8 years and her work is infused with the presence of the house, its gardens and grounds.
A source of inspiration.

Nigel Jones blends natural materials into the landscape

The idea for curating an exhibition of work referencing or directly related to Ashley Court arose when Tara Fraser (owner, with her partner Nigel Jones) took a trip to explore her hitherto unknown family connections with the Heide Museum of Modern Art in Melbourne last year.
Heide was the home of influential Australian art collectors and patrons, John and Sunday Reed, from the mid 1930s through to their deaths in 1981. Ashey Court bears more than a passing resemblance to Heide, a substantial Victorian house on the banks of the Yarra river, with around 20 acres of land and gardens.

Tara’s father (Leslie Stack, d.1976) was a close friend of the Reed’s and lived and worked at Heide in the 1960s. Following her visit to Melbourne in 2024, she reflected that she had ‘unwittingly replicated something of that place in this one’ and felt inspired to explore further the idea of inviting contemporary artists to create works in response to the house and surrounding landscape at Ashley Court, just as the Reeds had done at Heide.

The house and gardens will be open daily 10th-20th September

Ashley Court Tea Room will provide refreshments/light lunches, and all the grounds, gardens (including the walled kitchen garden) will be open to visitors.

Ashley Court is 1 mile south of Tiverton on the Bickleigh Road. 10 minutes drive from the M5 Junction 27 to the front door. What 3 words – lunch.gather.vibes