Dinder House, a grade II Regency listed building in the small village of Dinder, in Somerset, was built in 1801 by the Rev William Somerville on the site of a former manor house. Artistic trends Regency architecture Regency fashions Regency dance Regency novels A listed building in the United Kingdom is a building or other structure officially designated as being of special architectural historical or cultural significance Dinder (which means "the house in the valley" is a small village 2½ miles west of Shepton Mallet, and 2 miles east of Wells in Somerset Somerset ( or) is a county in south west England The County town is Taunton, which is in the south of the county Year 1801 ( MDCCCI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting on Tuesday The original house consisted of only the center part of the building. The outer bays were added around 1850 by Vulliany, and a further single storey addition to the north dates from 1929. [1] The gate piers, quadrant walls and flanking piers include panelled central piers with pagodal caps, and one with iron lamp at its apex. [2] A bridge over the River Sheppey pre dates the house. The River Sheppey has its source in a group of springs west of the village of Doulting, near Shepton Mallet in Somerset, England. [3]
The estate had come into the Somerville family on the marriage of an heiress of the Hickes family to George Somerville (d. 1776), father of the William Somerville who erected the new house in 1801. On the death of William's widow, the estate passed to his nephew, James Somerville Fownes who adopted the surname Somerville, to save its connection with the house.
The last Somerville resident of the house was Admiral of the Fleet Sir James Fownes Somerville, who was in charge of the British force that sank the French fleet at Mers-el-Kébir, near Oran, Algeria, on 3 July 1940. Admiral of the Fleet Sir James Fownes Somerville GCB, GBE, DSO ( 17 July 1882 &ndash 19 March 1949 The Attack on Mers-el-Kébir, also known as Operation Catapult, was a hostile engagement off the coast of French Algeria where a British Royal Navy Mers-el-Kébir (المرسى الكبير “the Great Harbor” is a port town in northwestern Algeria, located by the Mediterranean Sea near Oran Oran ( Arabic:ar وهران pronounced Wahran; also transliterated as Ouahran, Spanish: Orán. Algeria ( ar [[Arabic]] الجزائر, Al Jaza'ir ælʤæˈzæːʔir Amazigh: ⴷⵥⴰⵢⴻⵔ Dzayer) officially the People's Year 1940 ( MCMXL) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. After World War II, Somerville, who was made Lord Lieutenant of Somerset in August 1946, lived in the house, dying there on 19 March, 1949. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including The house passed out of the Somerville family in the 1970s.
Dinder House is now owned by the Mycock family who bought the house in 2002.
External links
- A photo of the house.
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