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Tetton is an historic estate in the parish of Kingston St Mary in the English county of Somerset. The present grade II* listed Tetton House dates from 1790 and was enlarged and mainly rebuilt in 1924-6 by Harry Stuart Goodhart-Rendel for H M Herbert.
History
In the 18th century Tetton was owned by the Dyke family, which also had seats at Holnicote and Pixton in Somerset. In 1745 Elizabeth Dyke, daughter and heiress of Thomas Dyke, became the wife of Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 7th Baronet (1722–1785), of Killerton in Devon and Petherton in Somerset, to which family the Dyke estates then passed. It was held by the Acland family for only one generation. In 1796 Tetton and Pixton passed to Henry George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Carnarvon, as part of the marriage settlement on his marriage to Elizabeth "Kitty" Acland,> daughter of John Dyke Acland (1746-1778) and of Lady Harriet Acland (1750-1815). Dyke Acland was a younger son of the 7th Baronet by his marriage to Elizabeth Dyke, and was the father of Sir John Dyke Acland, 8th Baronet (d. 1785). Lady Harriet Acland, a daughter of Stephen Fox-Strangways, 1st Earl of Ilchester, died at Tetton in 1815. It then passed to her grandson Edward Charles Hugh Herbert the second son of Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Carnarvon. Edward Herbert was the MP for the rotten borough of Callington, and passed the house down to his descendants. The house was enlarged and mainly rebuilt 1924-26 by H.S. Goodhart-Rendel for H. M. Herbert.
In the late 19th century the gate piers and walls from Tetton were moved to Cothelstone Manor. In World War II the house was used as a maternity unit. It has since been divided into apartments.
The south front has a colonnade, of fluted Doric columns, onto a courtyard around which the house is built. The east front has a pedimented porch.