Historic houses · South East England
Stepleton House
Stepleton House — Grade I listed house in North Dorset, England, UK.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
- Family-friendly
- Limited wheelchair access
About
Stepleton House is a historic house in the United Kingdom — typically a country seat, manor, or town house with notable architecture or history. Heritage designation: Grade I listed building. Owned by Julines Beckford. Wikidata describes it as: "Grade I listed house in North Dorset, England, UK". Coordinates: 50.9010°, -2.1957°.
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Protected designations
- Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty: Dorset
- Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty: Cranborne Chase & West Wiltshire Downs
Designations sourced from Natural England open data under OGL v3.
From the Wikipedia article
Stepleton House is a 17th-century country house in the parish of Iwerne Stepleton in Dorset, situated about 5 kilometres (3 mi) north of Blandford Forum, Dorset, England. It is a Grade I listed building. Originally built around a courtyard, the house is now a six- by five-bay block with flanking pavilions. It is constructed of ashlar in two storeys plus basement and attics with a hipped stone slate roof. The main house dates from the 17th century and the pavilions from the 18th century. The six-bay frontage has a two-bay pedimented centrepiece. The house stands in a 110-hectare (270-acre) park through which runs the River Iwerne. The grounds and the stable block are separately Grade II listed.
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Background
History
Stepleford House was built for Thomas Fownes in 1634 on land he had bought from George Pitt of Stratfield Saye, Hampshire. It was sold by his descendant, also Thomas Fownes, in 1745 for £12,500 to Julines Beckford, son of a rich Jamaican plantation owner. Beckford remodelled the house and developed the grounds, creating a lake by damming the River Iwerne. He was MP for Salisbury for 10 years and Sheriff of Dorset for 1749–50. On his death in 1764 the property passed to his only son Peter Beckford, MP. Beckford became the patron of the composer Muzio Clementi, whom he discovered at the age of 14 in Rome, and who lived with Beckford in Stepleton House from 1766–73. Peter's grandson, George…
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- Coordinates
- 50.9010, -2.1957
- District
- Dorset
- Parish
- Iwerne Stepleton
- Postcode
- DT11 8PR
- Parliamentary constituency
- North Dorset
Sources
- wikidata: Q17531200 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Stepleton House (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- commons: Stepleton House - geograph.org.uk - 618699.jpg (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Stepleton House?
- Stepleton House is in South-East England, United Kingdom (postcode DT11 8PR), in the parish of Iwerne Stepleton.
- Who owns Stepleton House?
- Stepleton House is owned by Julines Beckford.
- Is Stepleton House a listed building?
- Stepleton House is officially recognised as Grade I listed building listed.
- Is Stepleton House a protected site?
- Yes — Stepleton House is part of the Dorset National Landscape (AONB) and the Cranborne Chase & West Wiltshire Downs National Landscape (AONB).
- How do I get to Stepleton House?
- Drivers can navigate to postcode DT11 8PR. It sits within the North Dorset parliamentary constituency.