More information : (ST 92772691) Wardour Castle (NAT) (1) Wardour New Castle, designed by James Paine and constructed in 1768. Grade I. (2) Country house, now Cranborne Chase School. Designed and constructed by James Paine in 1770-76 for the eighth Lord Arundell. It comprises a square main block with flanking pavilions, and is one of the finest Palladian houses in Wiltshire. Grade I. (3,4)
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For some years, after the 2nd World War, Cranborne Chase, a girl¿s boarding school functioned in (new) Wardour Castle but later in the 1990s the property was sold and redeveloped as private apartments. (6) |