Talk:Dumbleton Hall

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Edit request: build date and lead image

I have a close connection to the current owners, so I am not editing the article myself.

1. Build date. The article says "The Hall was completed in 1832." with no citation. Historic England, list entry 1091709 says the hall was "built by George Stanley Repton in Tudor style for Edward Holland c1830". Please replace that sentence with: "The present hall was built from about 1830", cited to that entry.

2. Lead image. The current lead image predates the restoration completed in 2026. A 2026 photograph is on Commons: File:Dumbleton Hall - Hall Exterior.jpg. Please consider using it as the lead image. Leodw45 (talk) 18:07, 17 September 2026 (UTC)

Hi, I've changed the date as suggested. The builder and owner are noted in the list entry, so I've kept those. I've kept the old lead photo for now, as I think it gives a better overview of the whole building. DougieMcC (talk) 20:34, 22 September 2026 (UTC)

Edit request: present-day use

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The "Today" section currently reads: "The Hall has been open to the general public as a hotel and wedding venue since 1996." That sentence is uncited and out of date. Please replace it with:

The hotel was sold in 2021 to Chatham Park Development, a United States–based property developer. After a two-year, £25 million restoration it reopened as a hotel in 2026, operated by Bespoke Hotels, with 34 bedrooms.

Sources: The Caterer (29 March 2021) reports the sale "to a US-based property developer off a guide price of £6m"; Boutique Hotelier (30 April 2026) states the hotel is "owned by Chatham Park Development, a US-based development firm which acquired the hotel in April 2021", "operated by Bespoke Hotels", and reopened "following a £25m redevelopment" with "34 bedrooms and suites"; The Caterer (15 May 2026) reports it "has reopened in the North Cotswolds following a two-year restoration under new ownership". Leodw45 (talk) 12:05, 22 September 2026 (UTC)

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Edit request: architecture

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The article has no description of the building itself. Please add the following as a new section headed "Architecture", between "History" and "Today". Everything in it is taken from the Historic England list entry (NHLE 1091709), which the article already cites (as the ref named "NHLE", so in the article this can simply be <ref name="NHLE"/>).

Dumbleton Hall was built c.1830 by George Stanley Repton for Edward Holland in the Tudor style, of ashlar limestone from the Temple Guiting quarries with a slate roof. The main body is of three storeys, with twin projecting gables to the entrance front, a curving orangery at the south-west corner and octagonal stair turrets with ogee cupolas. A porte-cochère was added to the entrance front in 1905, and a service wing in two phases in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The interior was extensively remodelled in the same period by the Eyres and Eyres-Monsell families, and includes a panelled hall with a 17th-century-style ribbed ceiling and a Tudor-arched stone fireplace, and a panelled ballroom with linenfold panelling and finely executed plasterwork in the Arts and Crafts manner. The house was listed at Grade II* on 28 August 1987.

Notes for the reviewer: the list entry's own wording is "Country house built by George Stanley Repton in Tudor style for Edward Holland c1830; service wing added in two phases late C19- early C20. Ashlar limestone from the Temple Guiting quarries; slate roof", "Central porte cochere built 1905", "Interior: appears to have been extensively remodelled late C19- early C20 by the Eyres and Eyres-Mansell families" (the family name is usually spelled Eyres-Monsell), and "Grade: II* … Date first listed: 28-Aug-1987". If the paragraph is too long, the first and last sentences alone would be an improvement. Leodw45 (talk) 12:15, 22 September 2026 (UTC)

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Edit request: Post Office Fellowship of Remembrance — citations

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The History section's paragraph on the Post Office Fellowship of Remembrance (beginning "The Hall became a private hotel in 1959") and the following one-sentence paragraph on the 2021 sale have no citations. Sources exist for most of it. Please replace those two paragraphs with the following, which keeps what can be sourced and drops what cannot (the £180,000 price and the 1960 opening date — I found no source for either):

In 1959 the Hall was bought by the Post Office Fellowship of Remembrance, an organisation of Post Office staff which ran convalescent and holiday hotels for its members, and it became a hotel for Post Office employees. A memorial garden was laid out on the site of the former swimming pool and opened on 18 June 2001. The Fellowship's two Books of Remembrance, which list the 12,830 Post Office employees killed in the two world wars and were handwritten by a postal worker, James Trezies, and dedicated in 1957, were presented to the Postal Museum at a ceremony at Dumbleton Hall on 11 November 2015.

In 2021 the Fellowship sold the Hall, one of the last of its hotels; the proceeds of the sales funded its successor, the Post Office Remembrance Fellowship, as a grant-making charity.

Notes for the reviewer: The Caterer (29 March 2021) says the Hall "was acquired for hotel use by Post Office Fellowship of Remembrance in 1959". The Fellowship's own history page says it bought "properties for GPO employees and their families to use for convalescence, educational purposes and holidays", that "the last three … were sold between 2019 and 2021", that the Books "contain the names of 12,830 GPO employees killed in both world wars", "were handwritten, illustrated and bound by a Post Office employee, Mr J A Trezies, over a period of three years, and were unveiled at a dedication ceremony in the presence of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother in 1957", and that "the proceeds from these sales made possible the establishment of PORF as a significant grant-making charity". War Memorials Online describes the garden as "on the site of the former Victorian swimming pool" and transcribes the inscription "OPENED ON 18TH JUNE 2001". The CWU report says the books "were handed to the BPMA by The Post Office Fellowship of Remembrance at a special ceremony of remembrance held in the Dumbleton Hall Hotel near Evesham on 11 November", in "the second year of the First World War Centenary" (2015); the Postal Museum's site also gives 2015, though the Fellowship's page says 2018 — I have followed the two sources that agree. The current text's "kept at the Hall" is plausible but I found no source that states it, so the replacement says only what the CWU report says. The final sentence of the History section (tagged citation needed since July 2021) is superseded by the present-day request above and could be removed at the same time. Leodw45 (talk) 12:20, 22 September 2026 (UTC)

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