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'''Dorton House''', formerly known as '''Wildernesse''', is a Grade II listed Georgian mansion house in [[Seal, Kent]], near Sevenoaks; until 2013 it was used as the headquarters for the [[Royal London Society for the Blind]] (RLSB) and as housing for the blind and partially sighted children who attended its school.

==History==
The house dates to the mid-eighteenth century and is Grade II [[Listed building|listed]].<ref name="listing">((cite web |title=Dorton House School for the Blind |url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1243509?section=official-listing |publisher=Historic England |access-date=25 January 2022))</ref> There is a late nineteenth-century extension, and at the same time the interior was remodelled "in a very rich style, leaving little original work behind".<ref name="listing"/> There is a further extension built when the house was a school, which is not part of the listing.<ref name="listing"/>

An earlier house on the site was built by Sir Charles Bickerstaffe in 1669.((citation needed|date=January 2022)) In 1884, the house was bought by Charles Henry Mills of Hillingdon who later became [[Charles Mills, 1st Baron Hillingdon|1st Baron Hillingdon]].((citation needed|reason=this wiki article doesn't mention this house|date=January 2022)) Baron Hillingdon built his own gasworks as well as a laundry and an orphanage from where he employed many of his staff. He was a philanthropist and eventually gave the allotments, recreation ground and village hall to Seal.((citation needed|date=January 2022))

In 1923, Wildernesse was sold to a syndicate, becoming a Country Club and Golf Course which had, as an early brochure states, “probably the most palatial nineteenth hole in England”.((citation needed|date=January 2022)) After use as a sector hospital during the Second World War, Wildernesse continued as a Country Club until 1954. ((citation needed|date=January 2022)) It was used as a children's convalescent home called Oak Bank until it was sold to the RLSB and became known as Dorton House, named after the Society's previous home in a Grade 1 listed Jacobean Mansion in [[Dorton]], [[Buckinghamshire]].((citation needed|date=January 2022))

On the Dorton campus the RLSB ran its Nursery and Dorton College as well as a support service for the families of visually impaired children. The age range of the school was 5 to 16 and the last headteacher was Dorothea Hackman.<ref name="GIAS">((cite web |title=Dorton House School |url=https://www.get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/Establishments/Establishment/Details/119039 |website=Get Information about Schools |publisher=Gov.UK |access-date=25 January 2022))</ref>

The RLSB closed Dorton House School in 2013.<ref name="GIAS"/><ref>((cite web |url=http://www.sevenoakschronicle.co.uk/Final-fete-Dorton-House/story-19436201-detail/story.html |title=Latest Kent Sevenoaks news &#124; Kent Live |website=Sevenoakschronicle.co.uk |date=2017-02-23 |access-date=2017-03-16 |archive-date=24 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924100714/http://www.sevenoakschronicle.co.uk/Final-fete-Dorton-House/story-19436201-detail/story.html |url-status=dead ))</ref>

Dorton House served as a shooting location for the 2012 TV adaptation of [[Ford Madox Ford]]'s ''[[Parade's End (TV series)|Parade's End]]''.<ref name="film">((cite web |title=Annex 1 – Major productions filmed in Kent since 2006 |url=https://democracy.kent.gov.uk/documents/s59628/Item%20C2%20-%20Kent%20Film%20Offic%20-%20Annex.pdf |publisher=Kent Film Office |access-date=25 January 2022))</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.rlsb.org.uk Royal London Society for the Blind] ((Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200918155325/https://www.rlsb.org.uk/ |date=18 September 2020 ))
* [http://www.educationbase.co.uk/Dorton-House-School-Sevenoaks,CC1808 Dorton House School on EduBase]
* [https://www.wildernesse-estate.co.uk/history History - Wildernesse Residents' Association]

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