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Stately home with links to literary giants goes on sale for pounds3m ; An historic stately home that once hosted writers Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray went on sale yesterday for offers of about pounds3 million.

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From: Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)
Date: 20080508
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An historic stately home that once hosted writers Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray went on sale yesterday for offers of about pounds3 million.

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 in 2006.

Owner Dorset County Council gave Sherborne House Trust six months to develop proposals aimed at revitalising the dilapidated 18th- century property.

But the plan ...

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