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Dorton House, Buckinghamshire

16th century English Grade I listed house

Summary

16th century English Grade I listed house

Field	Value
name	Dorton House (now Ashfold School)
image	Passing Ashfold School (geograph 4526837).jpg
caption	Aerial view of Dorton House (now Ashfold School)
type	House (now school)
locmapin	Buckinghamshire
map_relief	yes
coordinates
location	Dorton, Buckinghamshire
built	17th century with later alterations
architecture	Jacobean
owner	Ashfold School Trust
designation1	Grade I
designation1_offname	Ashfold School
designation1_date	25 October 1951
designation1_number	1124266
designation2	Grade II listed building
designation2_offname	Stable block at Ashfold School
designation2_date	26 February 1985
designation2_number	1311471
designation3	Grade II listed building
designation3_offname	Walls surrounding kitchen garden, with summerhouse at Ashfold School
designation3_date	26 February 1985
designation3_number	1332807
designation4	Grade II listed building
designation4_offname	Gardener's cottage at Ashfold School
designation4_date	26 February 1985
designation4_number	1124267
designation5	Grade II listed building
designation5_offname	Dorton Spa Farmhouse
designation5_date	26 February 1985
designation5_number	1158469

Dorton House is a Jacobean country house near the village of Dorton in Buckinghamshire, England. It was built between 1596 and 1626. It currently houses Ashfold School, an independent preparatory school. Dorton House is a Grade I listed building.

History

Historic England gives a build date for the house of the early 17th century, noting a datestone for 1626 on an external soffit. Elizabeth Williamson and Nikolaus Pevsner, in their revised Buckinghamshire volume of the Buildings of England, give a rather later date of 1675. Both attribute the house to Sir John Dormer.

The house was sold in 1783 to Sir John Fletcher and remained in his family until 1928 when it was sold to Major Michael Beaumont who served as a British soldier, Conservative Member of Parliament for Aylesbury, Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire.

The Royal London Society for the Blind purchased the house in 1939, as a school, before they moved to Wildernesse at Dorton House in Seal, Kent, in 1955.

In 1955 the house was purchased by James Harrison and turned into Ashfold preparatory school.

Ashfold School is a co-educational independent day and boarding preparatory school for about 270 pupils aged from 3 to 13 years. Actor brothers Edward and James Fox attended the school when it was near Haywards Heath in West Sussex.

Architecture and description

The house is in a Jacobean Style and is in a horseshoe shape. The house was built from bricks made from local clay fired at the bottom of Brill Hill.

References

Sources

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References

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Sale, Johnathan. (27 March 2008). "Passed/Failed: An education in the life of Edward Fox, actor". The Independent.

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