Local Government at Follaton
In 1965, the house and grounds of Follaton were sold to Totnes Rural District Council for £25,000 to be used as office accommodation. It is now the headquarters of South Hams District Council, which absorbed the rural council during the 1974 reorganisation of local government.
The new, and substantially larger district council initially had offices both at Follaton House and in Totnes itself. When the decision was taken to centralise the council’s departments on the Follaton site, the old house was substantially extended with new office buildings designed to complement.
