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Denbies is an estate near Dorking in Surrey, England. A farmhouse and surrounding land was converted into a weekend retreat in 1734. In 1849 it passed to Thomas Cubitt, a master builder, working at the time on the royal residence Osborne House. He designed a mansion at Denbies as a more modest version of Osborne. It was a substantial building in the Italianate style, with almost 100 rooms on three storeys. The payment of death duties and the maintainence of a large domestic estate forced the family to begin selling parcels of land. Cubitt's mansion was abandoned until its demolition in 1953, by which time the family was living in a Regency-style house converted from the housing of the garden and stable staff. The 635 acre left of the estate was put on the market in 1984 and bought by Biwater, a water-treatment company. Two years later the company chairman Adrian White established Denbies Wine Estate, using 268 acre on a south-facing piece of land to plant vines.

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Hi and anyone else interested: a draft blurb for this article is above. Thoughts, comments and edits are welcome. Gog the Mild (talk) 18:01, 17 December 2022 (UTC)