Dorton House, Buckinghamshire

Dorton House, Buckinghamshire

Dorton House is a Grade I Listed Jacobean country house near the village of Dorton in Buckinghamshire, England.

The house was built between 1596 and 1626 by Sir John Dormer on the site of a previous house. The house is in a Gothic Style and is in a horseshoe shape. The house was built from bricks made from local clay fired at the bottom of Brill Hill.

The house was sold in 1783 to Sir John Fletcher and remained in his family till 1928 when it was sold to Major Michael Beaumont. The Royal London Society for the Blind then purchased the House in 1939 as a school before they moved to Wildernesse in Seal, Kent in 1955. At this point the school was purchased by James Harrison for Ashfold School and turned into a preparatory school which to this day is what the House is still used for.

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Coordinates: 51°49′11″N 1°00′56″W / 51.819595°N 1.015635°W / 51.819595; -1.015635


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