Dewlish House is a country house near

Dewlish Dewlish is a village and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in the English county, county of Dorset in southern England, and is situated approximately north-east of the county town Dorchester, Dorset, Dorchester. The village is sited in the ...

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. It is a Grade I

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History

Dewlish House, built in 1702, became the home of the Michel family in the 1756. It served as the childhood home of

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(who later became a

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) from 1804 to 1823 and later served as his retirement home between 1880 and 1886. The historic listing was added in 1956. Recently owned by Mr and Mrs Anthony Boyden (from 1962 to 2020) the Grade I-listed Queen Anne style house and its property were sold in 2020. The buyer was an American already living in the UK. The "Queen Anne/Georgian" house was built in 1702 by Thomas Skinner; it was modified during the 1900s, according to

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, with "the removal of an 18th- and 19th-century service wing some time in the 20th century. In addition to the home, the property includes "stabling, six cottages, outbuildings and of gardens, grounds, pasture and park-land".

References

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