Hutton Court

near Weston super Mare, Somerset

Hutton Court, Hutton, Near Weston super Mare, Somerset

A 15th Century manor house. Purchased by Edward Bisdee (1802–1870) a native of Oldmixon near Hutton who had made a fortune in Tasmania. He held the house and manor from the 1850s until his death, when he left them to his brother Alfred Henry Bisdee (1819–1898).

He in turn passed Hutton Court on to his son Thomas Gamaliel Bisdee (1852–1933).

It was then left to Thomas Edward Bisdee DSO, MC, (1888-1934), recently retired from the regular army, who was killed in a riding accident in April 1934.

Due to incurring two lots of death duties within one year, the family could not afford to keep the Property and so in 1935 the house and contents were sold by auction, when the house was bought by a Captain Stamp.

In 1948 it was sold again to a Captain G. W. Gwynne, who owned it until the 1950s, when it was sold to the Palmer family who lived there until the late 1970s. Hutton Court then became a hotel, but in the 1990s a new owner returned it to use as a private residence. It has now been subdivided into two or three separate residences.