Horsington House

Horsington House

Horsington House is a country house in Horsington, near Templecombe in Somerset. It is a stone-built house with pillared porch, built in 1839.[1] It is a Grade II listed building.[2]

The estate was the home of the Dodington family from around 1790 to 1922.[3] The three-storey Doulting stone house built in 1839 has five bays on the front with a pediment supported by doric columns over the central porch.[1]

In 1939 the house and park were sold by Catherine Campbell Noyes to Malvern Girls' College. The charity Barnardo's used it as a children's home from 1946 until July 1972. [4][5] Subsequently Horsington House became an hotel. [6]

It was purchased in the 1990s by Ardon Lyon, a philosophy professor from London, in a state of substantial neglect, disrepair and deferred maintenance.[7] The grounds include a sunken garden and a hard tennis court. The house was divided into flats with one being advertised for sale at a price of £850,000 in 2015.[8]

References

  1. 1 2 Baggs, A.P.; Siraut, M.C. "Horsington In: A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 7, Bruton, Horethorne and Norton Ferris Hundreds.". British History Online. Victoria County History. Retrieved 28 September 2016.
  2. ↑ "Horsington House Hotel". National heritage List for England. Historic England. Retrieved 28 September 2016.
  3. ↑ "HORSINGTON HOUSE HOTEL (1986)". BBC Domesday Reloaded.
  4. ↑ "Horsington House". Barnardos.org.uk. Retrieved 10 January 2013.
  5. ↑ "Horsington House, Templecombe, Somerset". Children's Homes. Retrieved 28 September 2016.
  6. ↑ A P Baggs and M C Siraut, 'Horsington', in A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 7, Bruton, Horethorne and Norton Ferris Hundreds, ed. C R J Currie and R W Dunning (London, 1999), pp. 119-131 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/som/vol7/pp119-131 [accessed 8 April 2015].
  7. ↑ "A few that got away". Times Higher Education. 5 February 1999. Retrieved 28 September 2016.
  8. ↑ Youens, Arabella. "10 idyllic country houses for sale". Country Life. Retrieved 28 September 2016.

Coordinates: 51°00′42″N 2°25′29″W / 51.0118°N 2.4247°W / 51.0118; -2.4247

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