History
Orleigh Court is a late medieval house built in Buckland Brewer. John Davie bought the building in 1684. It was the birth place of John Hanning Speke. It was substantially altered in the early 18th century and remodelled after 1869. It was redeveloped for multiple occupancy in the 1980s and is currently divided into approximately twelve apartments.
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