<P> Caroline Sterling , née Bone , formerly Pemberton ( born 3 April 1955 ; died 2017 ) ( Sara Coward ) moved to the village in 1977 , aged 22 , when she was hired by Sid as barmaid in the Bull . Her career took off when in 1979 Jack Woolley offered her a job at Grey Gables and she eventually became manager . Upon Jack 's retirement , she and partner Oliver Sterling managed to raise funds to buy the hotel and she became the proprietor . On her arrival she soon attracted the attention of many of the male villagers -- she once had an affair with Brian Aldridge , and was romantically linked with former village doctor , Matthew Thorogood , and businessman and one - time estate owner Cameron Fraser ( who disappeared with £ 60,000 of her savings ) , and she was engaged to non-stipendiary minister and vet Robin Stokes . In 1995 she married the new owner of the estate , Guy Pemberton ( Hugh Dickson ) . After only seven months of marriage he suffered a fatal heart attack and left her the Dower House and a majority share in the Bull ( which she sold to Lilian Bellamy , in order to raise funds to buy Grey Gables ) . When Oliver Sterling moved to the village she began an affair with him and they eventually moved into Grange Farm together . They were married in June 2006 . Sara Coward died on 13 February 2017 . In the episode on 11 July 2017 , it was revealed that Caroline had died suddenly but peacefully at the Sterlings ' second home in Italy . </P>
who owns the dower house in the archers
Lilian Bellamy