An opportunity that’s not so much once-in-a-lifetime as once-in-four-lifetimes has arisen as The Manor House in the wonderfully-named Dorset village of Sandford Orcas has come up for sale. Penny Churchill tells more.
In March 1966, Country Life ran a two-part article on The Manor House in Sandford Orcas, near the Dorset market town of Sherborne. It is ‘one of the most charming manor houses in the West of England’, wrote the magazine’s then Architectural Editor,…