The current Dumbleton Hall

We are grateful to Mr Martin Grafton, a director of the Post Office Fellowship of Remembrance, for much of the history of the present Dumbleton Hall.    He in turn is grateful to Mr Michael Casey, a descendant of Viscount Monsell, for the generous loan of photographs and newspaper cuttings.

In 1830, Edward Holland commissioned the architect George Stanley Repton, son of the famous landscape
gardener and occasional architect, Humphrey Repton, to build a new hall, up the hill from the site of Old Dumbleton Hall. The new Dumbleton Hall was built in neo-Tudor style, and contructed in stone, from the Temple Guiting quarries, and brick.   Edward Holland carried out many improvements to the village.   He rebuilt some of the farms and constructed a number of semi-detached cottages.   In order to carry out all this building work he established a brickyard to the north of the village.   Edward Holland died in 1875 and the estate was bought by the Eyres-Monsell family.    In 1959 the Eyres-Monsell family sold the Hall to The Post Office Fellowship of Remembrance.

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