page_title: Dinmore Manor
section_title: Ownership and renovations
hierarchical_section_title: Dinmore Manor / Ownership and renovations
caption_attribution_description: English: Dinmore Manor near to Westhope, Herefordshire, Great Britain.
context_page_description: Dinmore Manor House is a large rural house in a well-wooded, hilly part of Herefordshire in the least populous parish of the county, Dinmore. It was substantially rebuilt in late 16th century, altered around 1830 and extended around the year 1928. The main house is a Grade II listed building. The outlying chapel is mostly medieval and is grade II* listed.
context_section_description: The 19,167 square feet (1,780.7 m²) Manor was owned by former Carphone Warehouse Director Martin Dawes, according to a June 2018 news item discussing the intended sale of the property. Dawes had acquired the Manor property in 1999 from the estate of Charles Ian Murray, a descendant of the former owner Richard Hollins Murray had who acquired the property in 1927. 
  In addition to the Manor House, the wider estate includes other residential properties, a magnificent shoot, an outstanding cattle breeding facility and a world class equestrian complex. A 2008 report stated that the Estate was closed to the public apart from occasional shoot days . The Estate also has a successful cattle breeding operation which specialises in pedigree Limousin cattle, owned by Paul Dawes and managed by Richard Bartle as of May 2020.
  
  A May 2019 report on the intended sale of the estate indicated that the property included the manor house and 19 restored houses and cottages that were let to tenants on a short term basis. A major restoration of the manor was completed after 1999. Another report, in 2018, provided more specifics about the work completed by Hollins Murray in the 1920s and 1930s:
  [He] spent a considerable sum on the house, including several ‘Gothic’ additions, and restored the 13th century chapel of the Knight Hospitallers of Jerusalem, as well as the cloisters leading from the chapel to the manor. (Murray was an Officer of the Order of St. John Jerusalem). The gardens were also re-landscaped with the creation of a new rock garden ... regularly opened to the public [after the restoration].
caption: Dinmore Manor Cloister
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