Anderson Manor, Dorset

When she died the house contents were sold by auction and, unfortunately, all the bespoke furniture and Tregonwell artefacts were removed.

[3] During the Second World War, the manor was requisitioned, initially, as the headquarters of the Small Scale Raiding Force (SSRF) attached to 62 Commando and became the planning centre for Operation Pinprick, a series of raids designed to force the Germans to waste valuable manpower defending a multitude of targets.

[3] The listing describes the building as a three-storey manor house with a symmetrical front and projecting gabled wings.

[2] Rather more prosaically Treves describes Anderson Manor House as "a remarkably fine and stately building.

The village has vanished, so that the manor house and the church are left alone, one on either side of the faithless stream.

Typical flowers include snowdrops and daffodils in the spring, wisteria and blossoms in May and June, old roses and peonies in midsummer and herbaceous borders in the autumn.