Bloxworth Manor - Bathsheba Everdene's, 'Upper Weatherbury Farm' from the 1967 film adaption of Thomas Hardy's 'Far from the Madding Crowd'.
Bloxworth Manor House - (Elizabethan E-Plan)
Grade I listed house built in 1608 and claims to be the first brick property in the county of Dorset.
Built in 1608 by George Savage Savage, part of the possessions of the Cerne Abbey, at the dissolution. Not a large estate, but the family seem to have been mildly prosperous at the beginning of the 17th century and the house was rebuilt.
Due to a poor financial position, George Savage (great-great grandson & MP for Wareham) was forced In 1689 to convey the house to Henry Trenchard – whose family also owned Poxwell Manor – and it remained in the Trenchard family until 1964.
Over the last 100 years the house fell into ruins, was vandalized and then restored.
The house was used as Bathsheba Everdene's house (Upper Weatherbury Farm) in the 1967 film adaptation of Far from the Madding Crowd. It was considerably and sympathetically restored in the 1970s.
The horticulturalist Martin Lane Fox, acquired the house in 1997 and remodelled the garden. The house was on the market in 2014 for £4 million
Bloxworth Manor - Bathsheba Everdene's, 'Upper Weatherbury Farm' from the 1967 film adaption of Thomas Hardy's 'Far from the Madding Crowd'.
Bloxworth Manor House - (Elizabethan E-Plan)
Grade I listed house built in 1608 and claims to be the first brick property in the county of Dorset.
Built in 1608 by George Savage Savage, part of the possessions of the Cerne Abbey, at the dissolution. Not a large estate, but the family seem to have been mildly prosperous at the beginning of the 17th century and the house was rebuilt.
Due to a poor financial position, George Savage (great-great grandson & MP for Wareham) was forced In 1689 to convey the house to Henry Trenchard – whose family also owned Poxwell Manor – and it remained in the Trenchard family until 1964.
Over the last 100 years the house fell into ruins, was vandalized and then restored.
The house was used as Bathsheba Everdene's house (Upper Weatherbury Farm) in the 1967 film adaptation of Far from the Madding Crowd. It was considerably and sympathetically restored in the 1970s.
The horticulturalist Martin Lane Fox, acquired the house in 1997 and remodelled the garden. The house was on the market in 2014 for £4 million