Came House is a privately owned

country house image:Blenheim - Blenheim Palace - 20210417125239.jpg, 300px, Blenheim Palace - Oxfordshire An English country house is a large house or mansion in the English countryside. Such houses were often owned by individuals who also owned a Townhou ...

next to the village of

Winterborne Came Winterborne Came is a small dispersed settlement and civil parish in the county of Dorset in England, situated in the west of the county, approximately south-east of the county town Dorchester. Dorset County Council's 2013 mid-year estimate of ...

, in

Dorset Dorset ( ; Archaism, archaically: Dorsetshire , ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by Somerset to the north-west, Wiltshire to the north and the north-east, Hampshire to the east, t ...

, England. Built in the mid-18th century, it is a Grade I

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Description

History

The house was built for

John Damer John Damer (25 June 1744 – 15 August 1776) was an Anglo-Irish Whig politician. Family John was the first of three sons of Joseph Damer, 1st Earl of Dorchester by the Lady Caroline Sackville. His mother was the daughter of Lionel Cranfiel ...

by Francis Cartwright of Blandford in 1754; after Cartwright's death in 1758, the interior was completed by Vile and Cobb, cabinet makers of London, in 1762. There is a kitchen wing on the east, connected to the house by a passageway."Winterborne Came", in ''An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset'', Volume 2, South east (London, 1970), pp. 382-387
British History Online. Retrieved 7 October 2021. In the mid-19th century an entrance with a porch, vestibule and cloakrooms, and a cast-iron domed conservatory, were added on the west side of the house. The conservatory is attributed to the architect

Charles Fowler Charles Fowler (17 May 1792 – 26 September 1867) was an English architect, born and baptised at Cullompton, Cullompton, Devon. He is especially noted for his design of market buildings, including Covent Garden Market in London. Life Educati ...

. A library was also established at that time and other minor changes were made. There have otherwise been few alterations.

Present day

, the house is a venue for weddings and parties.Came House
Retrieved 8 October 2021.

References

{{reflist Grade I listed houses in Dorset Country houses in Dorset