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In 2018, Sherborne House was purchased under the
Sherborne House Trust, with the aim of 'restoring, preserving and maintaining Sherborne House, Sherborne, Dorset, including the Thornhill Mural, promoting and advancing the education of the public in the arts, including (a) promoting and providing
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may have been the architect. The House, which incorporates an earlier 16th century north wing, is three storeys high and seven bays wide and rendered in stone rubble and brick with a slate roof. The staircase features a mural painted a year or two after the completion of the house by
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in aid of the
Sherborne Literary and Scientific Institution, of which Macready was president. Macready left Sherborne in 1861 and the lease of Sherborne House was taken over by Robert Willmott, a silk throwster. Subsequent tenants were Major
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approved Lord Digby's School for Girls taking over the lease of
Sherborne House. Lord Digby's School moved in to Sherborne House on the 9th November 1931 and the School was formally opened on 18 February 1932 by Miss
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facilities for participation in the arts, and (b) fostering and promoting the improvement and development of artistic knowledge, understanding and appreciation of the arts'.
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grant that would have helped to repair the roof. By June 2006, Sherborne House was shrouded in scaffolding and the
Thornhill-designed mural was beginning to show signs of
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for £2,000. From 1824 until 1849, the house was occupied under lease by the banker Samuel Pretor. In 1850, the house was leased by the recently retired
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In 2012, International Fine Art
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in his 'History of Dorset' reported that the house was designed by 'Mr
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