Shute consists of a church and three buildings: the medieval house of the Bonvilles; the gatehouse of this; and a handsome Palladian house built by Thomas Parlby in 1787. William Pole (d.1587) acquired the medieval house; his son, Sir William (1561–1635), built the gatehouse; and his son, Sir John (d.1658), was made the 1st Baronet of Shute in 1628. The 6th Baronet, who took the name Sir John William De la Pole (1757–1799), abandoned the medieval house, which became a farmhouse called Shute Barton, and built the new one (the plan of which he is shown holding in Thomas Beach’s portrait of him at Antony. After the death of the 11th Baronet in 1926, Shute and the title passed to a descendant of Reginald Pole-Carew (1753–1835), Sir John Carew Pole (1902–1993), 12th Bt, who added the name of Carew to his own because of his inheritance of Antony. He gave Shute Barton, some Pole family portraits, and the gatehouse to the National Trust in 1959.