It was built in about 1780 as the dower house for Exbury House, the principal residence. In 1912 it was purchased by Lionel de Rothschild, father of the man who has just sold it, Edmund de Rothschild, as part of the small Inchmery Estate. "Mr Lionel" set about designing a garden of grandiose proportions based on Inchmery House, but his great plans for Inchmery Gardens were frustrated by refusal of permission to close a road making an alternative route to Lepe.
The result was that in 1919 he bought the adjoining Exbury Estate and created the gardens, which now enjoy international fame. But Inchmery House remained the Rothschild's family home since then, and was only put on the market because the decision was taken to re-establish Exbury House as the principal family residence."
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