The Grange, Broadhembury

The manor of Broadhembury was amongst these possessions and was acquired from the Crown by Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton (1505-1550), whose grandson sold it to Edward Drew (c.1542–1598).

[2] Edward Drew (c.1542–1598)[3] later purchased the manor of Broadhembury including the lands and buildings of the grange of Dunkeswell Abbey.

Arthur Charles Edward Locke, of Northmoor, eldest son of Adèle Caroline Drewe (d.1895) sold the Grange estate in 1903.

[4][5] At some time before 1927[6] the 17th-century carved and highly decorative oak panelling of the room in the south crosswing, the drawing room in 1904, was purchased by the art dealer "Charles of London" (Charles Duveen, younger brother of Joseph Duveen) and was shipped to its New York showroom where it was purchased by the tycoon William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951) who placed it in warehouse storage together with many other such purchases.

[7] In 1943/4 it was purchased by Dr Preston Pope Satterwhite of Louisville, Kentucky (a friend of Mrs J.B.