Horsington House

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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 is now, once again, owned privately.

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References

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.
↑ "Horsington House Hotel". National heritage List for England. Historic England. Retrieved 28 September 2016.
↑ "HORSINGTON HOUSE HOTEL (1986)". BBC Domesday Reloaded.
↑ "Horsington House". Barnardos.org.uk. Archived from the original on 17 July 2012. Retrieved 10 January 2013.
↑ "Horsington House, Templecombe, Somerset". Children's Homes. Retrieved 28 September 2016.
↑ 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.

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[bho-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. Archived from the original on 17 July 2012. 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.

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