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Denbies is an estate near Dorking in Surrey, England. A farmhouse and surrounding land was converted into a weekend retreat in 1734. In 1849 it passed to Thomas Cubitt, a master builder, working at the time on the royal residence Osborne House. He designed a mansion at Denbies as a more modest version of Osborne. It was a substantial building in the Italianate style, with almost 100 rooms on three storeys. The payment of death duties and the maintainence of a large domestic estate forced the family to begin selling parcels of land. Cubitt's mansion was abandoned until its demolition in 1953, by which time the family was living in a Regency-style house converted from the housing of the garden and stable staff. The 635 acres (2.57 km2) left of the estate was put on the market in 1984 and bought by Biwater, a water-treatment company. Two years later the company chairman Adrian White established Denbies Wine Estate, using 268 acres (1.08 km2) on a south-facing piece of land to plant vines. (Full article...)
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Hi Sagaciousphil and anyone else interested: a draft blurb for this article is above. Thoughts, comments and edits are welcome. Gog the Mild (talk) 18:01, 17 December 2022 (UTC)