Tone Dale House

Tone Dale House
Native name Tonedale House
Location	Wellington, Somerset, England
Built	1814
Owner	Benjamin & Victoria Fox
Listed Building – Grade II
Official name: Tonedale House
Designated	1 July 1976
Reference no.	1344790

Tone Dale House (or Tonedale House) was built by Thomas Fox, in 1801, is an historic Grade II listed country house located in Wellington, Somerset, England. Wellington lies 7 miles (11 km) west of Taunton in the vale of Taunton Deane, 1 mile (1.6 km) from the Devon border. Tone Dale House, also known as House of Fox, offers views of Somerset with the to the North, and Blackdown Hills to the south, upon which sits the Wellington monument, built in commemoration of the Duke of Wellington.

Other Fox family west country houses included many from around southern Cornwall coast, including Trebah, Glendurgan Garden and Penjerrick Garden all of their gardens are popular tourist destinations as they are open to the public.

In 1786, Thomas Fox the son of Edward Fox became a partner in the family's long established textile manufacturing business Fox Brothers in Wellington, Somerset at Tonedale Mills and Coldharbour Mill Working Wool Museum, Uffculme, Devon. "It was the practice...for many well-to-do manufacturers and merchants to build fine houses in the country, becoming country gentlemen themselves, their ladies priding themselves on their idleness." Thomas Fox and his wife Sarah, however, built their Palladian Villa house from 1801 beside their woollen mill.

Edward Fox (1719-1782) was married to Anna Were (1722-1788), whose family had long been established as textile manufacturers in Wellington in the county of Somerset. Their son, Thomas (17 January 1747 – 29 April 1821) became a partner in his grandfather Thomas Were's firm, Were and Co., and married Sarah Smith, the daughter of Thomas Smith, a London banker. They had 15 children, of whom seven sons and three daughters survived to adulthood.

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