Twyssenden Manor, near Goudhurst in Kent spent much of the 20th century in use as a youth hostel, but after being purchased by its current owner, a “successful businessman who, in the late 1990s, decided to abandon his City career in favour of a quieter life in the country,” in 2002 was restored to its former glory.
Consisting of a Grade II* listed 16th century sandstone tower joining two older houses, this 8,445 square foot, 5 bedroom house has many period features and amongst them is a former chapel, a tower that was likely a confessional for a priest and several medieval murals portraying verses from the ‘marriage prayer,’ Psalm 128 also.
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For sale since last September and now reduced in price by £1.05 million to £6.95 million, of The Twyssenden Estate, Will Peppitt of selling agents Savills told The Times:
“There are lots of medieval farmhouses, but this is different. You might think it would be dark with low ceilings, but this place has good ceiling heights. It was clearly a house of some importance.”
“There is an entire wall intricately decorated in a 17th-century fresco in what would have been the bridal chamber. It hasn’t been touched up, all the colours are original. It is now preserved behind a glass panel.”
Standing in some 258 acres of land, the estate is approached by a private road and includes formal gardens with what Country Life’s Penny Churchill describes as “picturesque ruins,” an all-weather Astroturf tennis court, a series of spring-fed lakes, Grade III permanent pasture and woodland. Completing the package is a 2 bedroom barn conversion, a gym, games room, domestic offices, garaging and a hunting lodge also.
The present owners have derived income from letting the farmland and a “family shoot” of duck, high pheasant and partridge have provided typically 11 days per season.
The Numbers – The Twyssenden Estate, Goudhurst, Kent, United Kingdom, TN17 2RG
May 2019 – Reduced to £6.95 million ($9 million, €8 million or درهم33.2 million).
September 2018 – For sale for £8 million ($10.4 million, €9.3 million or درهم38.2 million).
2001 – Sold for £2.2 million ($2.7 million, €2.4 million or درهم10 million).
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No photographs of the interior?
They’re at the end of the article. Hope you can see them now.
What a mess!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wrecking ball urgently required!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Price should be reduced by at least another 4 million!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ridiculous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wish I had the money as this is a dream home.
Oooh, thanks. They didn’t come up at first, computer glitch.
Am totally, utterly with Felix, not Rodders. What a surprise.
How beautifully it has been restored
What happened to the whipping post in the kitchen and the priest’s hole? I was there in 1943.
José Stimpson
Hi Jose, Remember, I was born in the main bedroom in 1944! Much love, Julian.
Have you any further history of the property Jose?