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Anderson Manor, Dorset

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33: 146:"a remarkably fine and stately building. It is of faded red brick faced with stone, has high gables and towering chimneys, handsome stone mullioned windows, and a general bearing of great dignity and charm. The village has vanished, so that the manor house and the church are left alone, one on either side of the faithless stream." 93:
The manor remained in the Tregonwell family until 1902, when it was purchased by a Mrs Gratrix. When she died the house contents were sold by auction and, unfortunately, all the bespoke furniture and Tregonwell artefacts were removed. Other owners were the Tabors and the Cholmondeleys; finally, in
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manor house; due to its completion date. But it appears the house was started in the 1590s by Sir John Moreton and purchased in 1613 by Tregonwell, who completed it. It is clearly partly
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Anderson Manor was built in 1622 for John Tregonwell. It was restored around 1912 and listed in 1955. Its listing describes it as a
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For several years Anderson Manor Gardens have been open to the public on a few days each year in order to raise money for the
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garden, herbaceous beds and an orchard. Beyond the garden the enclosed pasture is gradually being converted to woodland.
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The listing describes the building as a three-storey manor house with a symmetrical front and projecting gabled
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The 12th century church of St Michael's is now a private chapel, but is also open to the public.
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plinth. The roofs are tiled, with moulded copings to its parapets and gables. There are ball
83: 32: 8: 129:. It has brick walls in garden wall bond with burnt headers, and stone dressings, on a 202: 98: 55: 156: 126: 90:– to which many of its features, such as the E-shaped floor plan, bear witness. 66:. Today it is privately owned, but its gardens are open to the public under the 44: 340: 322: 309: 194: 175: 168: 106: 87: 47: 179: 101:, the manor was requisitioned, initially, as the headquarters of the 206: 187: 164: 144:
Rather more prosaically Treves describes Anderson Manor House as
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to the gables at the apex and springing. The house has 2 brick
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Training establishments of the Special Operations Executive
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at www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk. Retrieved 21 Sep 2014.
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Anderson Manor (Poole)

Grade I listed
manor house
Dorset
Anderson
England
John Tregonwell
National Gardens Scheme
National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens
Jacobean
Elizabethan
Second World War
Small Scale Raiding Force
62 Commando
Operation Pinprick
Special Operations Executive
wings
flint
finials
stacks
Macmillan nurses
St Michael's Church, Anderson
topiary
manor house
formal gardens
box
yew
pleached
lime

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