Parnham House is a sixteenth-century listed class house located about 1 mile (1.6 km) from Beaminster in Dorset, England. Historic England describes the house as "very important". In April 2017 the house was badly damaged by a fire.
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History
The original house on this site was built in the 1400s; it was rebuilt in 1552 for Robert Strode and his wife Elizabeth Hody. It is one of Dorset's oldest stately homes, and the 16th century wing hall and kitchen still exist. The house belonged to a local noble family, Strodes for over 200 years. During the British Civil War, the widow of Sir John Strode, Lady Ann Strode, was killed while trying to protect the house from the Roundheads under the authority of Thomas Fairfax. In 1810 the house was renovated by John Nash. The renovations include winding staircases and mullioned stone windows. After his death at the Second Battle of Ypres 1915, William Barnard Rhodes-Moorhouse was buried in the grounds of Parnham House, his family home. Rhodes-Moorhouse was the first pilot to receive the Victoria Cross. In the 1920s, the house was used as a country club, and it was used by American soldiers during the Second World War.
After the War, the house was used as a country club and nursing home. The house was purchased by John Makepeace in 1976, and he used the house for his School for Wood Working. In 2001, Makepeace sold the house to an Austrian hedge fund manager. The house became a class I listed on the National Heritage List for England in 1953. The garden was arranged by Inigo Thomas, and Grade II * was listed in the Garden and Botanical Gardens Register in 1986. In addition to the main house, cottage, ice house and garden wall a registered class II kitchen, and a front lawn, south terrace wall and gazebo, and Grade II * stable registered blocks. This house is used as a place to eat annual Dorset Food Fair.
April 2017 fire
In April 2017 the house was badly damaged by a fire, whose cause has not been determined. All contents and contents are missing. The homeowner, Michael Treichl, was found dead in Switzerland in July 2017, and a police investigation concluded in October 2017 without any other suspects.
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In popular culture
Parnham House is used as the location of one episode and one special from The Goodies. This episode features a gigantic version of the Dougal character from The Magic Roundabout .
See also
- Class I buildings registered in Dorset
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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