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From: Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)
Date: 20071106
Author:Lesley Richardson

An historic Westcountry stately home that hosted writers Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray is being sold on the open market after campaigners failed to secure a pounds3 million funding bid.

Sherborne House, which also features a mural by court painter Sir James Thornhill, has a Tudor wing built some time after 1570 but the principal building dates from 1720.

The Grade I-listed house, in Sherborne, Dorset, lost a pounds3 million Heritage Lottery funding bid last year.

Owner Dorset County Council gave the Sherborne House Trust six months to develop proposals aimed at revitalising ...

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