Horsington House

Horsington House

Horsington House is a country house in Horsington, near Templecombe in Somerset. It is a stone-built 18th century house with pillared porch. The grounds include a sunken garden and a hard tennis court. [1]

It was the home of the Dodington family from c1790-1922. [2] In 1939 the house and park were sold by Catherine Campbell Noyes to Malvern Girls' College. The charity Dr. Barnardo's used it as a children's home from 1946 until July 1972. [3] Subsequently Horsington House became an hotel. [4]

It was purchased in the 1990s by Ardon Lyon, a philosophy professor from London, in a state of substantial neglect, disrepair and deferred maintenance.

References

  1. ↑ "Horsington, Templecombe".
  2. ↑ "HORSINGTON HOUSE HOTEL (1986)". BBC Domesday Reloaded.
  3. ↑ "Horsington House". Barnardos.org.uk. Retrieved 10 January 2013.
  4. ↑ 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].

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