Dunmore Park is a truly sad place.
Manison and stable was build in 1820.
Full demolition of the mansion was approved but not carried out in 1987 and over the years since there have been a number of proposals to restore Dunmore Park and the surrounding landscape. A press report in 1991 talked of a £25m golf and leisure complex, while another in 1993 talked of turning the house into a hotel.
In 2006 there was a proposal to restore the house and stables and build an additional 49 houses. None of these proposals has ever come to fruition, and our own visits raise the question of whether the house is now beyond saving. Trees are now growing right up to the walls of the house and many are growing inside it. It can only be a matter of time before the vegetation now increasingly obscuring the outside and inside of the house simply swallows it up altogether...
Manison and stable was build in 1820.
Full demolition of the mansion was approved but not carried out in 1987 and over the years since there have been a number of proposals to restore Dunmore Park and the surrounding landscape. A press report in 1991 talked of a £25m golf and leisure complex, while another in 1993 talked of turning the house into a hotel.
In 2006 there was a proposal to restore the house and stables and build an additional 49 houses. None of these proposals has ever come to fruition, and our own visits raise the question of whether the house is now beyond saving. Trees are now growing right up to the walls of the house and many are growing inside it. It can only be a matter of time before the vegetation now increasingly obscuring the outside and inside of the house simply swallows it up altogether...
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