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  • Back on The Front

    Back on The Front

    Coastal ‘estate’ with its own lighthouse perched on The Front above the White Cliffs of Dover for sale; it was used in scenes featuring Oliver Reed in ‘The Shuttered Room’

    In November 2013, The Steeple Times featured the sale of ‘The South Foreland Estate’ for £4 million. Its price bizarrely had been increased by £500,000 from when it was on the market earlier that year and now it is again being promoted – this time for an even more punchy sum of £5 million.

     

    Standing in 11.5 acres of land on the edge of the White Cliffs of Dover in “the most remarkable location on the Kent coast” according to Knight Frank, the freehold property is now known more simply as ‘The Cliff House.’ It is described as having “been renovated by the past two proprietors” and of it, they add: “The current owners have carried out extensive redecoration during their occupation.”

     

    Aside from the main house with 3 reception rooms and 5 bedroom suites, there is a 2 bedroom annexe, a 3 bedroom cottage and a 2 bedroom cottage. Also included is an unused lighthouse, a large garage, a swimming pool, lawned gardens and some “light woodland.”

     

    The agents don’t, however, mention if the owners will be making Dame Vera Lynn available to sing about bluebirds at post lockdown viewings.

     

    Back on The Front – £5 million for The Cliff House, The South Foreland Estate, The Front, St Margaret’s Bay, Dover, Kent, CT15 6HP, United Kingdom through estate agents Knight Frank – Coastal ‘estate’ with its own lighthouse perched on the White Cliffs of Dover for sale; it was used in scenes featuring Oliver Reed in ‘The Shuttered Room.’
    The lighthouse, originally known as the Lower South Foreland Lighthouse, itself was built in 1843 on the site of an earlier building. It was decommissioned in 1904 after the sands shifted and is Grade II listed. Agents Knight Frank simply remark of it: “Not use.”
    Back on The Front – £5 million for The Cliff House, The South Foreland Estate, The Front, St Margaret’s Bay, Dover, Kent, CT15 6HP, United Kingdom through estate agents Knight Frank – Coastal ‘estate’ with its own lighthouse perched on the White Cliffs of Dover for sale; it was used in scenes featuring Oliver Reed in ‘The Shuttered Room.’
    Oliver Reed as ‘Ethan’ at South Foreland Lighthouse in ‘The Shuttered Room’ with Flora Robson as ‘Aunt Agatha’ looking down. The 1967 British horror film was directed by David Greene and starred Gig Young and Carol Lynley.

    The Numbers – The Cliff House, The South Foreland Estate, The Front, St Margaret’s Bay, Dover, Kent, CT15 6HP, United Kingdom

     

    June 2020 – For sale for £5 million ($6.3 million, €5.6 million or درهم22.3 million) through Knight Frank.

     

    November 2018 – For sale for £5 million ($6.3 million, €5.6 million or درهم22.3 million) through Knight Frank.

     

    November 2013 – For sale for £4 million ($5.1 million, €4.5 million or درهم18.6 million) through Strutt & Parker.

     

    July 2013 – For sale for £3.5 million ($4.4 million, €3.9 million or درهم16.3 million) through Strutt & Parker.

     

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    Back on The Front – £5 million for The Cliff House, The South Foreland Estate, The Front, St Margaret’s Bay, Dover, Kent, CT15 6HP, United Kingdom through estate agents Knight Frank – Coastal ‘estate’ with its own lighthouse perched on the White Cliffs of Dover for sale; it was used in scenes featuring Oliver Reed in ‘The Shuttered Room.’
    Out on The Front – The main entrance to The Cliff House.
    Back on The Front – £5 million for The Cliff House, The South Foreland Estate, The Front, St Margaret’s Bay, Dover, Kent, CT15 6HP, United Kingdom through estate agents Knight Frank – Coastal ‘estate’ with its own lighthouse perched on the White Cliffs of Dover for sale; it was used in scenes featuring Oliver Reed in ‘The Shuttered Room.’
    The main entertaining space is a large 27-foot by 17-foot drawing room.
    Back on The Front – £5 million for The Cliff House, The South Foreland Estate, The Front, St Margaret’s Bay, Dover, Kent, CT15 6HP, United Kingdom through estate agents Knight Frank – Coastal ‘estate’ with its own lighthouse perched on the White Cliffs of Dover for sale; it was used in scenes featuring Oliver Reed in ‘The Shuttered Room.’
    There is also a sitting room.
    Back on The Front – £5 million for The Cliff House, The South Foreland Estate, The Front, St Margaret’s Bay, Dover, Kent, CT15 6HP, United Kingdom through estate agents Knight Frank – Coastal ‘estate’ with its own lighthouse perched on the White Cliffs of Dover for sale; it was used in scenes featuring Oliver Reed in ‘The Shuttered Room.’
    The kitchen has been redecorated by the current owners.
    Back on The Front – £5 million for The Cliff House, The South Foreland Estate, The Front, St Margaret’s Bay, Dover, Kent, CT15 6HP, United Kingdom through estate agents Knight Frank – Coastal ‘estate’ with its own lighthouse perched on the White Cliffs of Dover for sale; it was used in scenes featuring Oliver Reed in ‘The Shuttered Room.’
    One of five bedroom suites.
    Back on The Front – £5 million for The Cliff House, The South Foreland Estate, The Front, St Margaret’s Bay, Dover, Kent, CT15 6HP, United Kingdom through estate agents Knight Frank – Coastal ‘estate’ with its own lighthouse perched on the White Cliffs of Dover for sale; it was used in scenes featuring Oliver Reed in ‘The Shuttered Room.’
    The largest of the bathrooms in the house.
    Back on The Front – £5 million for The Cliff House, The South Foreland Estate, The Front, St Margaret’s Bay, Dover, Kent, CT15 6HP, United Kingdom through estate agents Knight Frank – Coastal ‘estate’ with its own lighthouse perched on the White Cliffs of Dover for sale; it was used in scenes featuring Oliver Reed in ‘The Shuttered Room.’
    Out on The Front – Views out to sea.
    Back on The Front – £5 million for The Cliff House, The South Foreland Estate, The Front, St Margaret’s Bay, Dover, Kent, CT15 6HP, United Kingdom through estate agents Knight Frank – Coastal ‘estate’ with its own lighthouse perched on the White Cliffs of Dover for sale; it was used in scenes featuring Oliver Reed in ‘The Shuttered Room.’
    A balcony overlooking the Strait of Dover.
    Back on The Front – £5 million for The Cliff House, The South Foreland Estate, The Front, St Margaret’s Bay, Dover, Kent, CT15 6HP, United Kingdom through estate agents Knight Frank – Coastal ‘estate’ with its own lighthouse perched on the White Cliffs of Dover for sale; it was used in scenes featuring Oliver Reed in ‘The Shuttered Room.’
    Thrree ancillary properties are included in the sale price.
    Back on The Front – £5 million for The Cliff House, The South Foreland Estate, The Front, St Margaret’s Bay, Dover, Kent, CT15 6HP, United Kingdom through estate agents Knight Frank – Coastal ‘estate’ with its own lighthouse perched on the White Cliffs of Dover for sale; it was used in scenes featuring Oliver Reed in ‘The Shuttered Room.’
    The interior of one of these spaces.
    Back on The Front – £5 million for The Cliff House, The South Foreland Estate, The Front, St Margaret’s Bay, Dover, Kent, CT15 6HP, United Kingdom through estate agents Knight Frank – Coastal ‘estate’ with its own lighthouse perched on the White Cliffs of Dover for sale; it was used in scenes featuring Oliver Reed in ‘The Shuttered Room.’
    Looking out to sea.
    Back on The Front – £5 million for The Cliff House, The South Foreland Estate, The Front, St Margaret’s Bay, Dover, Kent, CT15 6HP, United Kingdom through estate agents Knight Frank – Coastal ‘estate’ with its own lighthouse perched on the White Cliffs of Dover for sale; it was used in scenes featuring Oliver Reed in ‘The Shuttered Room.’
    Looking inland.
    Back on The Front – £5 million for The Cliff House, The South Foreland Estate, The Front, St Margaret’s Bay, Dover, Kent, CT15 6HP, United Kingdom through estate agents Knight Frank – Coastal ‘estate’ with its own lighthouse perched on the White Cliffs of Dover for sale; it was used in scenes featuring Oliver Reed in ‘The Shuttered Room.’
    The property is surrounded by land owned by the National Trust.
    Back on The Front – £5 million for The Cliff House, The South Foreland Estate, The Front, St Margaret’s Bay, Dover, Kent, CT15 6HP, United Kingdom through estate agents Knight Frank – Coastal ‘estate’ with its own lighthouse perched on the White Cliffs of Dover for sale; it was used in scenes featuring Oliver Reed in ‘The Shuttered Room.’
    The White Cliffs.
    Back on The Front – £5 million for The Cliff House, The South Foreland Estate, The Front, St Margaret’s Bay, Dover, Kent, CT15 6HP, United Kingdom through estate agents Knight Frank – Coastal ‘estate’ with its own lighthouse perched on the White Cliffs of Dover for sale; it was used in scenes featuring Oliver Reed in ‘The Shuttered Room.’
    Out on The Front – An aerial shot of the property.
  • Superlative Stedcombe

    Superlative Stedcombe

    Stunning Grade I listed symmetrical William and Mary country house in Devon with slave trade links for sale; Stedcombe House for sale for £4.5 million

    An “outstanding” William and Mary country house built with the profits from the slave trade by one Richard Hallett (died 1747), whose “Black Negro servant called Ando” was accused of rioting in the streets of Lyme Regis in December 1702, has come to the market for £4.5 million ($5.6 million, €5.1 million or درهم20.6 million).

     

    Standing on the site of a manor house destroyed in the Civil War in 1645, Grade I listed Stedcombe House was built in 1697 by the Hallett family on their return from Barbados. It was occupied by them until their bankruptcy in 1889 and passed to the Stephens family, whom remained resident until 1960.

     

    Superlative Stedcombe – Stedcombe House, Axmouth, Devon, EX12 4BJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £4.5 million ($5.6 million, €5.1 million or درهم20.6 million) through Savills – Stunning Grade I listed symmetrical William and Mary country house in Devon with slave trade links for sale for £4.5 million.
    The house in 1961; note the 19th century porch (which was later removed). The house has the typical William and Mary look; we featured another example of such when we featured the sale of Oswaldkirk Hall in Yorkshire in October 2013.
    Superlative Stedcombe – Stedcombe House, Axmouth, Devon, EX12 4BJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £4.5 million ($5.6 million, €5.1 million or درهم20.6 million) through Savills – Stunning Grade I listed symmetrical William and Mary country house in Devon with slave trade links for sale for £4.5 million.
    The front elevation of Stedcombe House, Axmouth, Devon, EX12 4BJ, United Kingdom today (without the porch).
    Superlative Stedcombe – Stedcombe House, Axmouth, Devon, EX12 4BJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £4.5 million ($5.6 million, €5.1 million or درهم20.6 million) through Savills – Stunning Grade I listed symmetrical William and Mary country house in Devon with slave trade links for sale for £4.5 million.
    A painting of Richard Hallett at Stedcombe House with his black servant Ando by Julie Hine (painted 1992).
    Superlative Stedcombe – Stedcombe House, Axmouth, Devon, EX12 4BJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £4.5 million ($5.6 million, €5.1 million or درهم20.6 million) through Savills – Stunning Grade I listed symmetrical William and Mary country house in Devon with slave trade links for sale for £4.5 million.
    A birthday party with “exotic performers” at Stedcombe House in March 1907 (again, note the later removed 19th century porch).
    Superlative Stedcombe – Stedcombe House, Axmouth, Devon, EX12 4BJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £4.5 million ($5.6 million, €5.1 million or درهم20.6 million) through Savills – Stunning Grade I listed symmetrical William and Mary country house in Devon with slave trade links for sale for £4.5 million.
    This grand reception room in the house provides indication of the quality of the refurbishment carried out since 1988.

    Left vacant and rotting subsequently, the house became infected by “serious dry rot,” but upon purchase by the current owner it was subject to a “meticulous and sympathetic renovation” according to selling agents Savills.

     

    Described as a “large house overlooking the Axe valley” of “red brick in Flemish bond with Beer and Portland stone dressings” by Historic England, Stedcombe is a four storey symmetrical residence with a belvedere crowning its pinnacle. It is grand yet manageable and features 4 reception rooms, 9 bedrooms and 5 bathrooms and comes with a 3 bedroom gate lodge, a stable block and “numerous outbuildings” requiring renovation also.

     

    Standing on a plot of 20 acres that includes three walled gardens, pastureland and woodland, the only limitation of this home is that its once vast estate is now separate from it. Otherwise, here is probably the quintessential example of one of Britain’s most stunning homes.

     

    Of the 8,039 square foot main house, Savills note: “Several things about it are unusual, but its most significant characteristics are its easy flow of rooms and the quality of design. In keeping with its era, all the rooms benefit from high ceilings and excellent proportions.” Pevsner and Cherry (1988) add: “[Stedcombe House is] an exceptionally fine and complete example of this type of small late 17th Century country house, the compact and centralised plan being an early example.”

                                      

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    Superlative Stedcombe – Stedcombe House, Axmouth, Devon, EX12 4BJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £4.5 million ($5.6 million, €5.1 million or درهم20.6 million) through Savills – Stunning Grade I listed symmetrical William and Mary country house in Devon with slave trade links for sale for £4.5 million.
    The house viewed from the garden elevation; the grounds are laid out formally, but plainly are ready for a new owner with deep pockets to lavish attention on them.
    Superlative Stedcombe – Stedcombe House, Axmouth, Devon, EX12 4BJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £4.5 million ($5.6 million, €5.1 million or درهم20.6 million) through Savills – Stunning Grade I listed symmetrical William and Mary country house in Devon with slave trade links for sale for £4.5 million.
    The decorative style of the current owner is simple, but tasteful.
    Superlative Stedcombe – Stedcombe House, Axmouth, Devon, EX12 4BJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £4.5 million ($5.6 million, €5.1 million or درهم20.6 million) through Savills – Stunning Grade I listed symmetrical William and Mary country house in Devon with slave trade links for sale for £4.5 million.
    A room for reflection.
    Superlative Stedcombe – Stedcombe House, Axmouth, Devon, EX12 4BJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £4.5 million ($5.6 million, €5.1 million or درهم20.6 million) through Savills – Stunning Grade I listed symmetrical William and Mary country house in Devon with slave trade links for sale for £4.5 million.
    The dining room.
    Superlative Stedcombe – Stedcombe House, Axmouth, Devon, EX12 4BJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £4.5 million ($5.6 million, €5.1 million or درهم20.6 million) through Savills – Stunning Grade I listed symmetrical William and Mary country house in Devon with slave trade links for sale for £4.5 million.
    A more informal sitting space is to be found at basement level.
    Superlative Stedcombe – Stedcombe House, Axmouth, Devon, EX12 4BJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £4.5 million ($5.6 million, €5.1 million or درهم20.6 million) through Savills – Stunning Grade I listed symmetrical William and Mary country house in Devon with slave trade links for sale for £4.5 million.
    One can imagine hosting similar kitchen table suppers in this room very easily.
    Superlative Stedcombe – Stedcombe House, Axmouth, Devon, EX12 4BJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £4.5 million ($5.6 million, €5.1 million or درهم20.6 million) through Savills – Stunning Grade I listed symmetrical William and Mary country house in Devon with slave trade links for sale for £4.5 million.
    One of the grand bedrooms of the house.
    Superlative Stedcombe – Stedcombe House, Axmouth, Devon, EX12 4BJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £4.5 million ($5.6 million, €5.1 million or درهم20.6 million) through Savills – Stunning Grade I listed symmetrical William and Mary country house in Devon with slave trade links for sale for £4.5 million.
    Guests would not fail to be impressed by this canopy.
    Superlative Stedcombe – Stedcombe House, Axmouth, Devon, EX12 4BJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £4.5 million ($5.6 million, €5.1 million or درهم20.6 million) through Savills – Stunning Grade I listed symmetrical William and Mary country house in Devon with slave trade links for sale for £4.5 million.
    Even the bathrooms at Stedcombe House are grand.
    Superlative Stedcombe – Stedcombe House, Axmouth, Devon, EX12 4BJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £4.5 million ($5.6 million, €5.1 million or درهم20.6 million) through Savills – Stunning Grade I listed symmetrical William and Mary country house in Devon with slave trade links for sale for £4.5 million.
    The outbuildings at Stedcombe provide potential for conversion to other uses; office space, staff or guest accommodation or for use to provide a cinema room, games room or gym perhaps.
    Superlative Stedcombe – Stedcombe House, Axmouth, Devon, EX12 4BJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £4.5 million ($5.6 million, €5.1 million or درهم20.6 million) through Savills – Stunning Grade I listed symmetrical William and Mary country house in Devon with slave trade links for sale for £4.5 million.
    The sale price includes this gate house. It was built at a much later date, but is of a reflective architectural design.
    Superlative Stedcombe – Stedcombe House, Axmouth, Devon, EX12 4BJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £4.5 million ($5.6 million, €5.1 million or درهم20.6 million) through Savills – Stunning Grade I listed symmetrical William and Mary country house in Devon with slave trade links for sale for £4.5 million.
    The setting is unspoilt and the gardens roll into the countryside beyond.
    Superlative Stedcombe – Stedcombe House, Axmouth, Devon, EX12 4BJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £4.5 million ($5.6 million, €5.1 million or درهم20.6 million) through Savills – Stunning Grade I listed symmetrical William and Mary country house in Devon with slave trade links for sale for £4.5 million.
    Stedcombe’s acreage is split into gardens, woodland and parkland.
    Superlative Stedcombe – Stedcombe House, Axmouth, Devon, EX12 4BJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £4.5 million ($5.6 million, €5.1 million or درهم20.6 million) through Savills – Stunning Grade I listed symmetrical William and Mary country house in Devon with slave trade links for sale for £4.5 million.
    The entrance to the property is simple, but could be improved by a new owner.
    Superlative Stedcombe – Stedcombe House, Axmouth, Devon, EX12 4BJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £4.5 million ($5.6 million, €5.1 million or درهم20.6 million) through Savills – Stunning Grade I listed symmetrical William and Mary country house in Devon with slave trade links for sale for £4.5 million.
    A site plan of Stedcombe indicates its proximity to a neighbouring farm and other properties.
    Superlative Stedcombe – Stedcombe House, Axmouth, Devon, EX12 4BJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £4.5 million ($5.6 million, €5.1 million or درهم20.6 million) through Savills – Stunning Grade I listed symmetrical William and Mary country house in Devon with slave trade links for sale for £4.5 million.
    A glorious view of this stunning house from its gardens.
  • A Derelict Doer-Upper

    A Derelict Doer-Upper

    Derelict 18th century Oxfordshire mansion with 125 acres of land for sale for £10 million

     

    A 125-acre Oxfordshire estate with Humphrey Repton landscaped grounds has gone on sale for £10 million ($13.2 million, €11.3 million or درهم48.7 million) in spite of being described as being “in poor order.”

     

    The Coombe Park Estate at Whitchurch-on-Thames is situated at the end of a ¾ of a mile long private drive just 49 miles from Central London. Constructed in 1865, the original mansion was later demolished and what now remains consists of a 13,368 square foot house created from the original servants’ quarters, a coach house and an extension built in 1982.

     

    Featuring 4 main reception rooms, an indoor swimming pool, 6 bedrooms and 5 bathrooms, Coombe Park itself “has been unoccupied a number of years” but now presents an opportunity for a buyer to unleash its “enormous potential” according to selling agents Strutt & Parker.

     

    In addition to the main residence, there are three additional houses, an orangery, a coach house, offices, a sports pavilion, an indoor tennis court, stabling and a boat house included in the sale.

     

    According to a blog from 2008, the estate – which was used by the American military as a rest and recuperation ‘flak house’ during the Second World War – has been in the ownership of an individual from Rotterdam since 1982. He is described as having now “sadly lost his fortune.”

     

    A Derelict Doer-Upper – The Coombe Park Estate, Whitchurch-on-Thames, Reading, Oxfordshire, RG8 7QT, United Kingdom – Derelict 18th century Oxfordshire mansion Coombe Park at Whitchurch-on-Thames with 125 acres of land for sale for £10 million ($13.2 million, €11.3 million or درهم48.7 million) in spite of being described as being “in poor order” through agents Strutt & ParkerA Derelict Doer-Upper – The Coombe Park Estate, Whitchurch-on-Thames, Reading, Oxfordshire, RG8 7QT, United Kingdom – Derelict 18th century Oxfordshire mansion Coombe Park at Whitchurch-on-Thames with 125 acres of land for sale for £10 million ($13.2 million, €11.3 million or درهم48.7 million) in spite of being described as being “in poor order” through agents Strutt & ParkerA Derelict Doer-Upper – The Coombe Park Estate, Whitchurch-on-Thames, Reading, Oxfordshire, RG8 7QT, United Kingdom – Derelict 18th century Oxfordshire mansion Coombe Park at Whitchurch-on-Thames with 125 acres of land for sale for £10 million ($13.2 million, €11.3 million or درهم48.7 million) in spite of being described as being “in poor order” through agents Strutt & ParkerA Derelict Doer-Upper – The Coombe Park Estate, Whitchurch-on-Thames, Reading, Oxfordshire, RG8 7QT, United Kingdom – Derelict 18th century Oxfordshire mansion Coombe Park at Whitchurch-on-Thames with 125 acres of land for sale for £10 million ($13.2 million, €11.3 million or درهم48.7 million) in spite of being described as being “in poor order” through agents Strutt & Parker A Derelict Doer-Upper – The Coombe Park Estate, Whitchurch-on-Thames, Reading, Oxfordshire, RG8 7QT, United Kingdom – Derelict 18th century Oxfordshire mansion Coombe Park at Whitchurch-on-Thames with 125 acres of land for sale for £10 million ($13.2 million, €11.3 million or درهم48.7 million) in spite of being described as being “in poor order” through agents Strutt & Parker A Derelict Doer-Upper – The Coombe Park Estate, Whitchurch-on-Thames, Reading, Oxfordshire, RG8 7QT, United Kingdom – Derelict 18th century Oxfordshire mansion Coombe Park at Whitchurch-on-Thames with 125 acres of land for sale for £10 million ($13.2 million, €11.3 million or درهم48.7 million) in spite of being described as being “in poor order” through agents Strutt & ParkerA Derelict Doer-Upper – The Coombe Park Estate, Whitchurch-on-Thames, Reading, Oxfordshire, RG8 7QT, United Kingdom – Derelict 18th century Oxfordshire mansion Coombe Park at Whitchurch-on-Thames with 125 acres of land for sale for £10 million ($13.2 million, €11.3 million or درهم48.7 million) in spite of being described as being “in poor order” through agents Strutt & Parker A Derelict Doer-Upper – The Coombe Park Estate, Whitchurch-on-Thames, Reading, Oxfordshire, RG8 7QT, United Kingdom – Derelict 18th century Oxfordshire mansion Coombe Park at Whitchurch-on-Thames with 125 acres of land for sale for £10 million ($13.2 million, €11.3 million or درهم48.7 million) in spite of being described as being “in poor order” through agents Strutt & ParkerA Derelict Doer-Upper – The Coombe Park Estate, Whitchurch-on-Thames, Reading, Oxfordshire, RG8 7QT, United Kingdom – Derelict 18th century Oxfordshire mansion Coombe Park at Whitchurch-on-Thames with 125 acres of land for sale for £10 million ($13.2 million, €11.3 million or درهم48.7 million) in spite of being described as being “in poor order” through agents Strutt & Parker A Derelict Doer-Upper – The Coombe Park Estate, Whitchurch-on-Thames, Reading, Oxfordshire, RG8 7QT, United Kingdom – Derelict 18th century Oxfordshire mansion Coombe Park at Whitchurch-on-Thames with 125 acres of land for sale for £10 million ($13.2 million, €11.3 million or درهم48.7 million) in spite of being described as being “in poor order” through agents Strutt & Parker

  • Breaking For Gold

    Breaking For Gold

    Thatched seaside cottage in West Sussex for sale; it has a plot laid out in the style of the Chelsea Flower Show Gold Medal winning garden of 1936

     

    A thatched seaside cottage on what has been described as “the Sussex Riviera” has gone on sale for £3.25 million ($4.19 million, €3.67 million or درهم15.39 million) through agents Savills.

     

    Having the look of something you might also find in the Hamptons in America, The Breakers on the Willowhayne Estate at East Preston, near Littlehampton was built in 1936 in the Arts and Crafts style and restored over the last nine years by the current owners.

     

    Providing 6,006 square foot of accommodation over three floors, the house includes 4 reception rooms, 6 bedrooms and 5 bathrooms. It stands on a 0.75-acre beachside plot laid out in the plan of the winning garden at Chelsea Flower Show in 1936 and has an outdoor swimming pool – built in 2010 – also.

     

    A neighbouring house, owned by one of the original question setters for the game Trivial Pursuit, burnt to the ground in January 2014.

     

    Breaking For Gold – Savills seek £3.25 million ($4.19 million, €3.67 million or درهم15.39 million) for The Breakers, 29 Tamarisk Way, Willowhayne Estate, Angmering-on-Sea, East Preston, Littlehampton, Arun District, Sussex Riviera, West Sussex, BN16 2TEBreaking For Gold – Savills seek £3.25 million ($4.19 million, €3.67 million or درهم15.39 million) for The Breakers, 29 Tamarisk Way, Willowhayne Estate, Angmering-on-Sea, East Preston, Littlehampton, Arun District, Sussex Riviera, West Sussex, BN16 2TEBreaking For Gold – Savills seek £3.25 million ($4.19 million, €3.67 million or درهم15.39 million) for The Breakers, 29 Tamarisk Way, Willowhayne Estate, Angmering-on-Sea, East Preston, Littlehampton, Arun District, Sussex Riviera, West Sussex, BN16 2TEBreaking For Gold – Savills seek £3.25 million ($4.19 million, €3.67 million or درهم15.39 million) for The Breakers, 29 Tamarisk Way, Willowhayne Estate, Angmering-on-Sea, East Preston, Littlehampton, Arun District, Sussex Riviera, West Sussex, BN16 2TE Breaking For Gold – Savills seek £3.25 million ($4.19 million, €3.67 million or درهم15.39 million) for The Breakers, 29 Tamarisk Way, Willowhayne Estate, Angmering-on-Sea, East Preston, Littlehampton, Arun District, Sussex Riviera, West Sussex, BN16 2TEBreaking For Gold – Savills seek £3.25 million ($4.19 million, €3.67 million or درهم15.39 million) for The Breakers, 29 Tamarisk Way, Willowhayne Estate, Angmering-on-Sea, East Preston, Littlehampton, Arun District, Sussex Riviera, West Sussex, BN16 2TEBreaking For Gold – Savills seek £3.25 million ($4.19 million, €3.67 million or درهم15.39 million) for The Breakers, 29 Tamarisk Way, Willowhayne Estate, Angmering-on-Sea, East Preston, Littlehampton, Arun District, Sussex Riviera, West Sussex, BN16 2TE Breaking For Gold – Savills seek £3.25 million ($4.19 million, €3.67 million or درهم15.39 million) for The Breakers, 29 Tamarisk Way, Willowhayne Estate, Angmering-on-Sea, East Preston, Littlehampton, Arun District, Sussex Riviera, West Sussex, BN16 2TEBreaking For Gold – Savills seek £3.25 million ($4.19 million, €3.67 million or درهم15.39 million) for The Breakers, 29 Tamarisk Way, Willowhayne Estate, Angmering-on-Sea, East Preston, Littlehampton, Arun District, Sussex Riviera, West Sussex, BN16 2TE Breaking For Gold – Savills seek £3.25 million ($4.19 million, €3.67 million or درهم15.39 million) for The Breakers, 29 Tamarisk Way, Willowhayne Estate, Angmering-on-Sea, East Preston, Littlehampton, Arun District, Sussex Riviera, West Sussex, BN16 2TEBreaking For Gold – Savills seek £3.25 million ($4.19 million, €3.67 million or درهم15.39 million) for The Breakers, 29 Tamarisk Way, Willowhayne Estate, Angmering-on-Sea, East Preston, Littlehampton, Arun District, Sussex Riviera, West Sussex, BN16 2TEBreaking For Gold – Savills seek £3.25 million ($4.19 million, €3.67 million or درهم15.39 million) for The Breakers, 29 Tamarisk Way, Willowhayne Estate, Angmering-on-Sea, East Preston, Littlehampton, Arun District, Sussex Riviera, West Sussex, BN16 2TE

  • Empire State of Knightsbridge

    Empire State of Knightsbridge

    Penthouse with tower in prominent Knightsbridge landmark for sale for £8.25 million

     

    A penthouse with a tower in a Grade II listed landmark triangular ‘flat-iron’ building on the border of South Kensington and Knightsbridge has gone on sale for £8.25 million ($10.51 million, €9.39 million or درهم38.62 million).

     

    Created in 1991 to designs by Susan Walker Architects and involving the clever merger of two fourth floor flats as part of a £1.70 million scheme (the equivalent of £3.35 million, $4.27 million, €3.81 million or درهم15.68 million today), the 3,475 square foot apartment offered overlooks the Brompton Oratory and has a vista down the Brompton Road towards Harrods. It is within a building known as Empire House that was itself built between 1909 and 1916 to designs by Paul Hoffmann and was originally used by a German firm, the Continental Tyre Company.

     

    Currently featuring a large reception room, a dining kitchen, 5 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms and a laundry on the building’s fourth floor, a tower with domed reception space from the sixth to the seventh floors and a private roof terrace on its fifth floor, the apartment comes with planning permission for internal rearrangement.

     

    Held on a leasehold basis expiring 2142 and subject to a service charge of £20,550 per annum ($26,187, €23,391 or درهم96,211 per annum) according to agents JLL, a buyer will also have to pay a one-off charge of £12,054 ($15,360, €13,720 or درهم56,434) towards the cost of refurbishing the portered building’s lift.

     

    Empire State of Knightsbridge – The Penthouse, Empire House, 220 – 244 Brompton Road and 2 – 7 Thurloe Place, Brompton Quarter, Knightsbridge, London, SW7 2RU, United Kingdom – For sale for £8.25 million ($10.51 million, €9.39 million or درهم38.62 million) through JLL Empire State of Knightsbridge – The Penthouse, Empire House, 220 – 244 Brompton Road and 2 – 7 Thurloe Place, Brompton Quarter, Knightsbridge, London, SW7 2RU, United Kingdom – For sale for £8.25 million ($10.51 million, €9.39 million or درهم38.62 million) through JLL Empire State of Knightsbridge – The Penthouse, Empire House, 220 – 244 Brompton Road and 2 – 7 Thurloe Place, Brompton Quarter, Knightsbridge, London, SW7 2RU, United Kingdom – For sale for £8.25 million ($10.51 million, €9.39 million or درهم38.62 million) through JLLEmpire State of Knightsbridge – The Penthouse, Empire House, 220 – 244 Brompton Road and 2 – 7 Thurloe Place, Brompton Quarter, Knightsbridge, London, SW7 2RU, United Kingdom – For sale for £8.25 million ($10.51 million, €9.39 million or درهم38.62 million) through JLLEmpire State of Knightsbridge – The Penthouse, Empire House, 220 – 244 Brompton Road and 2 – 7 Thurloe Place, Brompton Quarter, Knightsbridge, London, SW7 2RU, United Kingdom – For sale for £8.25 million ($10.51 million, €9.39 million or درهم38.62 million) through JLLEmpire State of Knightsbridge – The Penthouse, Empire House, 220 – 244 Brompton Road and 2 – 7 Thurloe Place, Brompton Quarter, Knightsbridge, London, SW7 2RU, United Kingdom – For sale for £8.25 million ($10.51 million, €9.39 million or درهم38.62 million) through JLLEmpire State of Knightsbridge – The Penthouse, Empire House, 220 – 244 Brompton Road and 2 – 7 Thurloe Place, Brompton Quarter, Knightsbridge, London, SW7 2RU, United Kingdom – For sale for £8.25 million ($10.51 million, €9.39 million or درهم38.62 million) through JLLEmpire State of Knightsbridge – The Penthouse, Empire House, 220 – 244 Brompton Road and 2 – 7 Thurloe Place, Brompton Quarter, Knightsbridge, London, SW7 2RU, United Kingdom – For sale for £8.25 million ($10.51 million, €9.39 million or درهم38.62 million) through JLL Empire State of Knightsbridge – The Penthouse, Empire House, 220 – 244 Brompton Road and 2 – 7 Thurloe Place, Brompton Quarter, Knightsbridge, London, SW7 2RU, United Kingdom – For sale for £8.25 million ($10.51 million, €9.39 million or درهم38.62 million) through JLLEmpire State of Knightsbridge – The Penthouse, Empire House, 220 – 244 Brompton Road and 2 – 7 Thurloe Place, Brompton Quarter, Knightsbridge, London, SW7 2RU, United Kingdom – For sale for £8.25 million ($10.51 million, €9.39 million or درهم38.62 million) through JLLEmpire State of Knightsbridge – The Penthouse, Empire House, 220 – 244 Brompton Road and 2 – 7 Thurloe Place, Brompton Quarter, Knightsbridge, London, SW7 2RU, United Kingdom – For sale for £8.25 million ($10.51 million, €9.39 million or درهم38.62 million) through JLL Empire State of Knightsbridge – The Penthouse, Empire House, 220 – 244 Brompton Road and 2 – 7 Thurloe Place, Brompton Quarter, Knightsbridge, London, SW7 2RU, United Kingdom – For sale for £8.25 million ($10.51 million, €9.39 million or درهم38.62 million) through JLLEmpire State of Knightsbridge – The Penthouse, Empire House, 220 – 244 Brompton Road and 2 – 7 Thurloe Place, Brompton Quarter, Knightsbridge, London, SW7 2RU, United Kingdom – For sale for £8.25 million ($10.51 million, €9.39 million or درهم38.62 million) through JLL

  • Wealthy in Wiltshire

    Wealthy in Wiltshire

    Classically proportioned Wiltshire village house for sale; it’ll supposedly appeal to “your typical wealthy Briton” (whatever that might mean)

     

    Primarily built between 1620 and 1760, a classically proportioned four-storey house in the Wiltshire village of Seend has been placed on the market this week for £4.5 million ($5.8 million, €5.2 million or درهم21.2 million).

     

    Of ashlar and rendered stone construction and built for Mary, Dowager Duchess of Somerset in 1760, Seend Park (or ‘Seend Green House’ as it was previously known) was owned by the now retired judge Sir Mathew Thorpe from 1971 and since 1990 by its current owners. It has been Grade II listed since 1962 and was somewhat unkindly described by the architectural scholar Sir Nikolaus Pevsner CBE FBA (1902 – 1983) as: “So absolutely plain… that it looks like an institution”.

     

    The main house, which has been modernised in recent years and extends to 11,357 square foot, includes 4 reception rooms, 11 bedrooms and 5 bathrooms. It has many original features and in addition there is a 4 bedroom, 1,994 square foot lodge and a 3,630 square foot coach house within the property’s 26.4-acre grounds.

     

    Of the pint-sized mini estate, James Mackenzie of selling agents Strutt & Parker told The Times: “Architecturally, the house will attract your typical wealthy Briton”.

     

    Wealthy in Wiltshire – Seend Park or Seend Green House, High Street, Seend, Melksham, Wiltshire, SN12 6NZ, United Kingdom – For sale for £4.5 million ($5.8 million, €5.2 million or درهم21.2 million) through Strutt & ParkerWealthy in Wiltshire – Seend Park or Seend Green House, High Street, Seend, Melksham, Wiltshire, SN12 6NZ, United Kingdom – For sale for £4.5 million ($5.8 million, €5.2 million or درهم21.2 million) through Strutt & ParkerWealthy in Wiltshire – Seend Park or Seend Green House, High Street, Seend, Melksham, Wiltshire, SN12 6NZ, United Kingdom – For sale for £4.5 million ($5.8 million, €5.2 million or درهم21.2 million) through Strutt & Parker Wealthy in Wiltshire – Seend Park or Seend Green House, High Street, Seend, Melksham, Wiltshire, SN12 6NZ, United Kingdom – For sale for £4.5 million ($5.8 million, €5.2 million or درهم21.2 million) through Strutt & ParkerWealthy in Wiltshire – Seend Park or Seend Green House, High Street, Seend, Melksham, Wiltshire, SN12 6NZ, United Kingdom – For sale for £4.5 million ($5.8 million, €5.2 million or درهم21.2 million) through Strutt & ParkerWealthy in Wiltshire – Seend Park or Seend Green House, High Street, Seend, Melksham, Wiltshire, SN12 6NZ, United Kingdom – For sale for £4.5 million ($5.8 million, €5.2 million or درهم21.2 million) through Strutt & Parker Wealthy in Wiltshire – Seend Park or Seend Green House, High Street, Seend, Melksham, Wiltshire, SN12 6NZ, United Kingdom – For sale for £4.5 million ($5.8 million, €5.2 million or درهم21.2 million) through Strutt & Parker Wealthy in Wiltshire – Seend Park or Seend Green House, High Street, Seend, Melksham, Wiltshire, SN12 6NZ, United Kingdom – For sale for £4.5 million ($5.8 million, €5.2 million or درهم21.2 million) through Strutt & ParkerWealthy in Wiltshire – Seend Park or Seend Green House, High Street, Seend, Melksham, Wiltshire, SN12 6NZ, United Kingdom – For sale for £4.5 million ($5.8 million, €5.2 million or درهم21.2 million) through Strutt & ParkerWealthy in Wiltshire – Seend Park or Seend Green House, High Street, Seend, Melksham, Wiltshire, SN12 6NZ, United Kingdom – For sale for £4.5 million ($5.8 million, €5.2 million or درهم21.2 million) through Strutt & ParkerWealthy in Wiltshire – Seend Park or Seend Green House, High Street, Seend, Melksham, Wiltshire, SN12 6NZ, United Kingdom – For sale for £4.5 million ($5.8 million, €5.2 million or درهم21.2 million) through Strutt & ParkerWealthy in Wiltshire – Seend Park or Seend Green House, High Street, Seend, Melksham, Wiltshire, SN12 6NZ, United Kingdom – For sale for £4.5 million ($5.8 million, €5.2 million or درهم21.2 million) through Strutt & Parker Wealthy in Wiltshire – Seend Park or Seend Green House, High Street, Seend, Melksham, Wiltshire, SN12 6NZ, United Kingdom – For sale for £4.5 million ($5.8 million, €5.2 million or درهم21.2 million) through Strutt & Parker Wealthy in Wiltshire – Seend Park or Seend Green House, High Street, Seend, Melksham, Wiltshire, SN12 6NZ, United Kingdom – For sale for £4.5 million ($5.8 million, €5.2 million or درهم21.2 million) through Strutt & ParkerWealthy in Wiltshire – Seend Park or Seend Green House, High Street, Seend, Melksham, Wiltshire, SN12 6NZ, United Kingdom – For sale for £4.5 million ($5.8 million, €5.2 million or درهم21.2 million) through Strutt & ParkerWealthy in Wiltshire – Seend Park or Seend Green House, High Street, Seend, Melksham, Wiltshire, SN12 6NZ, United Kingdom – For sale for £4.5 million ($5.8 million, €5.2 million or درهم21.2 million) through Strutt & Parker

  • Making a Manor

    Making a Manor

    Refurbished Surrey manor house with connections to Detmar Blow and Gertrude Jekyll for sale for £2.55 million

     

    Reduced in price by £200,000 since when it was previously on the market in June 2015, a Surrey manor house is again for sale – but this time for £2.55 million ($3.32 million, €2.96 million or درهم12.20 million).

     

    First mentioned in association with Robert de Upbroke in 1282, Osbrooks at Capel, near Dorking was built as a hall and smoke bay house in the 15th and 16th centuries. Subsequently redeveloped in the 17th century and then extended by Detmar Blow (1867 – 1939) – an architect, contemporary of Edwin Lutyens and disciple of John Ruskin – in the arts and crafts style in the early 20th century. The building was given Grade II listed status in November 1966 and more recently had a swimming pool, gym and garaging added.

     

    Making a Manor – £2.55m Osbrooks, Capel, Dorking, Surrey, RH5 5JN – Refurbished Grade II listed Surrey manor house with connections to Detmar Blow and Gertrude Jekyll for sale for £2.55 million ($3.32 million, €2.96 million or درهم12.20 million) through Sotheby’s International Realty.
    Osbrooks in 1890

    Making a Manor – £2.55m Osbrooks, Capel, Dorking, Surrey, RH5 5JN – Refurbished Grade II listed Surrey manor house with connections to Detmar Blow and Gertrude Jekyll for sale for £2.55 million ($3.32 million, €2.96 million or درهم12.20 million) through Sotheby’s International Realty.
    Osbrooks today (with 20th century extension to left)

     

    Standing in 14 acres of gardens and grounds designed by amongst others the especially prolific Gertrude Jekyll (1843 – 1932), Osbrooks now provides 4,987 square foot and features 4 reception rooms, a bar, 8 bedrooms and 5 bathrooms. It includes such details as oak joinery, leaded windows and tall, diagonal chimney stacks and could very easily be used as a location in a Midsomer Murders or Miss Marple murder mystery television drama.

     

    Of the property, in April, John Fisher of selling agents Sotheby’s International Realty told The Times: “It could be a house for entertaining as well as comfortable living. It has all the space you could require, as well as proximity to good schools”.

     

    An adjoining 4-acre plot with stabling and planning permission for a 1,959 square foot, single storey dwelling is also available through Sotheby’s. It is offered for £450,000 ($586,000, €523,000 or درهم2.2 million).

     

    Making a Manor – £2.55m Osbrooks, Capel, Dorking, Surrey, RH5 5JN – Refurbished Grade II listed Surrey manor house with connections to Detmar Blow and Gertrude Jekyll for sale for £2.55 million ($3.32 million, €2.96 million or درهم12.20 million) through Sotheby’s International Realty.Making a Manor – £2.55m Osbrooks, Capel, Dorking, Surrey, RH5 5JN – Refurbished Grade II listed Surrey manor house with connections to Detmar Blow and Gertrude Jekyll for sale for £2.55 million ($3.32 million, €2.96 million or درهم12.20 million) through Sotheby’s International Realty.Making a Manor – £2.55m Osbrooks, Capel, Dorking, Surrey, RH5 5JN – Refurbished Grade II listed Surrey manor house with connections to Detmar Blow and Gertrude Jekyll for sale for £2.55 million ($3.32 million, €2.96 million or درهم12.20 million) through Sotheby’s International Realty.Making a Manor – £2.55m Osbrooks, Capel, Dorking, Surrey, RH5 5JN – Refurbished Grade II listed Surrey manor house with connections to Detmar Blow and Gertrude Jekyll for sale for £2.55 million ($3.32 million, €2.96 million or درهم12.20 million) through Sotheby’s International Realty.Making a Manor – £2.55m Osbrooks, Capel, Dorking, Surrey, RH5 5JN – Refurbished Grade II listed Surrey manor house with connections to Detmar Blow and Gertrude Jekyll for sale for £2.55 million ($3.32 million, €2.96 million or درهم12.20 million) through Sotheby’s International Realty.Making a Manor – £2.55m Osbrooks, Capel, Dorking, Surrey, RH5 5JN – Refurbished Grade II listed Surrey manor house with connections to Detmar Blow and Gertrude Jekyll for sale for £2.55 million ($3.32 million, €2.96 million or درهم12.20 million) through Sotheby’s International Realty.

  • A Highly Priced Hall

    A Highly Priced Hall

    Queen Anne house in South Yorkshire for sale for punchy sum of £1.2 million

     

    An architecturally striking four-storey Queen Anne house in South Yorkshire is for sale for £1.2 million ($1.6 million, €1.4 million or درهم5.7 million) in spite of standing on a small plot that is overlooked by its now converted former outbuildings.

     

    Originally built circa 1720 and Grade II listed since 1968, The Hall at High Hoyland, near Barnsley is built of coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and has a stone slate roof. It has many original features, provides 4 reception rooms, 7 bedrooms and 5 bathrooms and has gardens to both front and rear.

     

    The Hall is offered by the England Residential Estate Agency.

     

    A Highly Priced Hall – The Hall, Church Lane, High Hoyland, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S75 4BJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £1.2 million ($1.6 million, €1.4 million or درهم5.7 million) through England Residential Estate AgencyA Highly Priced Hall – The Hall, Church Lane, High Hoyland, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S75 4BJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £1.2 million ($1.6 million, €1.4 million or درهم5.7 million) through England Residential Estate AgencyA Highly Priced Hall – The Hall, Church Lane, High Hoyland, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S75 4BJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £1.2 million ($1.6 million, €1.4 million or درهم5.7 million) through England Residential Estate AgencyA Highly Priced Hall – The Hall, Church Lane, High Hoyland, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S75 4BJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £1.2 million ($1.6 million, €1.4 million or درهم5.7 million) through England Residential Estate Agency A Highly Priced Hall – The Hall, Church Lane, High Hoyland, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S75 4BJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £1.2 million ($1.6 million, €1.4 million or درهم5.7 million) through England Residential Estate AgencyA Highly Priced Hall – The Hall, Church Lane, High Hoyland, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S75 4BJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £1.2 million ($1.6 million, €1.4 million or درهم5.7 million) through England Residential Estate AgencyA Highly Priced Hall – The Hall, Church Lane, High Hoyland, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S75 4BJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £1.2 million ($1.6 million, €1.4 million or درهم5.7 million) through England Residential Estate AgencyA Highly Priced Hall – The Hall, Church Lane, High Hoyland, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S75 4BJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £1.2 million ($1.6 million, €1.4 million or درهم5.7 million) through England Residential Estate AgencyA Highly Priced Hall – The Hall, Church Lane, High Hoyland, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S75 4BJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £1.2 million ($1.6 million, €1.4 million or درهم5.7 million) through England Residential Estate AgencyA Highly Priced Hall – The Hall, Church Lane, High Hoyland, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S75 4BJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £1.2 million ($1.6 million, €1.4 million or درهم5.7 million) through England Residential Estate AgencyA Highly Priced Hall – The Hall, Church Lane, High Hoyland, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S75 4BJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £1.2 million ($1.6 million, €1.4 million or درهم5.7 million) through England Residential Estate AgencyA Highly Priced Hall – The Hall, Church Lane, High Hoyland, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S75 4BJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £1.2 million ($1.6 million, €1.4 million or درهم5.7 million) through England Residential Estate AgencyA Highly Priced Hall – The Hall, Church Lane, High Hoyland, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S75 4BJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £1.2 million ($1.6 million, €1.4 million or درهم5.7 million) through England Residential Estate AgencyA Highly Priced Hall – The Hall, Church Lane, High Hoyland, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S75 4BJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £1.2 million ($1.6 million, €1.4 million or درهم5.7 million) through England Residential Estate Agency

  • Fun at Faringdon

    Fun at Faringdon

    £144,000 per year sought for Oxfordshire mansion that was the scene of a most curious ménage-a-trois; it is owned by the writer Sofka Zinovieff

     

    “Tall and willowy” writer Sofka Zinovieff inherited Faringdon House in Oxfordshire at the age of 25 from her eccentric, bisexual uncle, Robert ‘The Mad Boy’ Heber-Percy, partner of the owner of the house since 1918, the 14th Lord Berners, Gerald Tyrwhitt-Wilson (1883 – 1950). She has recently placed it on the rental market at a price of £12,000 per month ($15,400, €14,200 or  درهم56,700 per month) through Knight Frank.

     

    Artist, composer and writer Lord Berners and “uninhibited” Heber-Percy occupied Faringdon House as a ménage-a-trois with the latter’s wife, Jennifer Fry, for several years and during that time visitors included everyone from the poet Sir John Betjeman to the artist Salvador Dalí, the Communist politician Tom Driberg MP and the writer H. G. Wells. Heber-Percy died in 1987 and it was at this time that the Georgian property passed to its current owner.

     

    Fun at Faringdon – Faringdon House, Faringdon, Oxfordshire, SN7 8AE – To rent for £12,000 per month ($15,400, €14,200 or درهم56,700) through Knight Frank – Home of writer Sofka Zinovieff, former home of eccentrics 14th Lord Berners and Robert ‘The Mad Boy’ Heber-Percy, built for poet Sir Henry Pye.
    Lord Berners famously once entertained Penelope Betjeman’s horse Moti to tea at Faringdon House

    Fun at Faringdon – Faringdon House, Faringdon, Oxfordshire, SN7 8AE – To rent for £12,000 per month ($15,400, €14,200 or درهم56,700) through Knight Frank – Home of writer Sofka Zinovieff, former home of eccentrics 14th Lord Berners and Robert ‘The Mad Boy’ Heber-Percy, built for poet Sir Henry Pye.
    Dyed pigeons are still to be found at the property

    Fun at Faringdon – Faringdon House, Faringdon, Oxfordshire, SN7 8AE – To rent for £12,000 per month ($15,400, €14,200 or درهم56,700) through Knight Frank – Home of writer Sofka Zinovieff, former home of eccentrics 14th Lord Berners and Robert ‘The Mad Boy’ Heber-Percy, built for poet Sir Henry Pye.
    Sofka Zinovieff

     

    Of her home, which she has variously herself occupied and also let to “cover the impossible costs”, in May 2016, Zinovieff told House & Garden:

     

    It’s funny how it has all worked out. The inheritance hasn’t changed me in the ways that my mother feared it might. I never wanted my identity to be bound up with my house and my life in Greece has saved me from that. No one there has ever even heard of Faringdon.

     

    Extending to 14,510 square foot, Grade I listed Faringdon House was built between 1770 and 1785 for the poet Sir Henry Pye (1744 – 1813). It includes 5 reception rooms, 12 bedrooms and 5 bathrooms, stands in grounds that extend to 14.81 acres and comes with an outdoor swimming pool with turreted changing rooms and a lake.

     

    Lord Berners’ gravestone is situated within the grounds and on it appears an epitaph he wrote himself. It reads:

     

    Here lies Lord Berners

    One of the learners

    His great love of learning

    May earn him a burning

    But, Praise the Lord!

    He seldom was bored

     

    Curiously, another testament to the activities of the property’s eccentric former occupants lives on at Faringdon in the form of pigeons dyed in “jewelled hues”. Pictured in marketing literature for the house, a charity, the Pink Pigeons Trust, is named in their honour also.

     

    Fun at Faringdon – Faringdon House, Faringdon, Oxfordshire, SN7 8AE – To rent for £12,000 per month ($15,400, €14,200 or درهم56,700) through Knight Frank – Home of writer Sofka Zinovieff, former home of eccentrics 14th Lord Berners and Robert ‘The Mad Boy’ Heber-Percy, built for poet Sir Henry Pye.Fun at Faringdon – Faringdon House, Faringdon, Oxfordshire, SN7 8AE – To rent for £12,000 per month ($15,400, €14,200 or درهم56,700) through Knight Frank – Home of writer Sofka Zinovieff, former home of eccentrics 14th Lord Berners and Robert ‘The Mad Boy’ Heber-Percy, built for poet Sir Henry Pye. Fun at Faringdon – Faringdon House, Faringdon, Oxfordshire, SN7 8AE – To rent for £12,000 per month ($15,400, €14,200 or درهم56,700) through Knight Frank – Home of writer Sofka Zinovieff, former home of eccentrics 14th Lord Berners and Robert ‘The Mad Boy’ Heber-Percy, built for poet Sir Henry Pye.Fun at Faringdon – Faringdon House, Faringdon, Oxfordshire, SN7 8AE – To rent for £12,000 per month ($15,400, €14,200 or درهم56,700) through Knight Frank – Home of writer Sofka Zinovieff, former home of eccentrics 14th Lord Berners and Robert ‘The Mad Boy’ Heber-Percy, built for poet Sir Henry Pye. Fun at Faringdon – Faringdon House, Faringdon, Oxfordshire, SN7 8AE – To rent for £12,000 per month ($15,400, €14,200 or درهم56,700) through Knight Frank – Home of writer Sofka Zinovieff, former home of eccentrics 14th Lord Berners and Robert ‘The Mad Boy’ Heber-Percy, built for poet Sir Henry Pye.Fun at Faringdon – Faringdon House, Faringdon, Oxfordshire, SN7 8AE – To rent for £12,000 per month ($15,400, €14,200 or درهم56,700) through Knight Frank – Home of writer Sofka Zinovieff, former home of eccentrics 14th Lord Berners and Robert ‘The Mad Boy’ Heber-Percy, built for poet Sir Henry Pye. Fun at Faringdon – Faringdon House, Faringdon, Oxfordshire, SN7 8AE – To rent for £12,000 per month ($15,400, €14,200 or درهم56,700) through Knight Frank – Home of writer Sofka Zinovieff, former home of eccentrics 14th Lord Berners and Robert ‘The Mad Boy’ Heber-Percy, built for poet Sir Henry Pye.Fun at Faringdon – Faringdon House, Faringdon, Oxfordshire, SN7 8AE – To rent for £12,000 per month ($15,400, €14,200 or درهم56,700) through Knight Frank – Home of writer Sofka Zinovieff, former home of eccentrics 14th Lord Berners and Robert ‘The Mad Boy’ Heber-Percy, built for poet Sir Henry Pye. Fun at Faringdon – Faringdon House, Faringdon, Oxfordshire, SN7 8AE – To rent for £12,000 per month ($15,400, €14,200 or درهم56,700) through Knight Frank – Home of writer Sofka Zinovieff, former home of eccentrics 14th Lord Berners and Robert ‘The Mad Boy’ Heber-Percy, built for poet Sir Henry Pye. Fun at Faringdon – Faringdon House, Faringdon, Oxfordshire, SN7 8AE – To rent for £12,000 per month ($15,400, €14,200 or درهم56,700) through Knight Frank – Home of writer Sofka Zinovieff, former home of eccentrics 14th Lord Berners and Robert ‘The Mad Boy’ Heber-Percy, built for poet Sir Henry Pye.Fun at Faringdon – Faringdon House, Faringdon, Oxfordshire, SN7 8AE – To rent for £12,000 per month ($15,400, €14,200 or درهم56,700) through Knight Frank – Home of writer Sofka Zinovieff, former home of eccentrics 14th Lord Berners and Robert ‘The Mad Boy’ Heber-Percy, built for poet Sir Henry Pye.Fun at Faringdon – Faringdon House, Faringdon, Oxfordshire, SN7 8AE – To rent for £12,000 per month ($15,400, €14,200 or درهم56,700) through Knight Frank – Home of writer Sofka Zinovieff, former home of eccentrics 14th Lord Berners and Robert ‘The Mad Boy’ Heber-Percy, built for poet Sir Henry Pye.Fun at Faringdon – Faringdon House, Faringdon, Oxfordshire, SN7 8AE – To rent for £12,000 per month ($15,400, €14,200 or درهم56,700) through Knight Frank – Home of writer Sofka Zinovieff, former home of eccentrics 14th Lord Berners and Robert ‘The Mad Boy’ Heber-Percy, built for poet Sir Henry Pye.Fun at Faringdon – Faringdon House, Faringdon, Oxfordshire, SN7 8AE – To rent for £12,000 per month ($15,400, €14,200 or درهم56,700) through Knight Frank – Home of writer Sofka Zinovieff, former home of eccentrics 14th Lord Berners and Robert ‘The Mad Boy’ Heber-Percy, built for poet Sir Henry Pye.Fun at Faringdon – Faringdon House, Faringdon, Oxfordshire, SN7 8AE – To rent for £12,000 per month ($15,400, €14,200 or درهم56,700) through Knight Frank – Home of writer Sofka Zinovieff, former home of eccentrics 14th Lord Berners and Robert ‘The Mad Boy’ Heber-Percy, built for poet Sir Henry Pye.Fun at Faringdon – Faringdon House, Faringdon, Oxfordshire, SN7 8AE – To rent for £12,000 per month ($15,400, €14,200 or درهم56,700) through Knight Frank – Home of writer Sofka Zinovieff, former home of eccentrics 14th Lord Berners and Robert ‘The Mad Boy’ Heber-Percy, built for poet Sir Henry Pye.Fun at Faringdon – Faringdon House, Faringdon, Oxfordshire, SN7 8AE – To rent for £12,000 per month ($15,400, €14,200 or درهم56,700) through Knight Frank – Home of writer Sofka Zinovieff, former home of eccentrics 14th Lord Berners and Robert ‘The Mad Boy’ Heber-Percy, built for poet Sir Henry Pye.

  • Domesticity Above A Canal

    Domesticity Above A Canal

    Conversion of “one of Europe’s first purpose-built office blocks” for sale; £3.5 million Grade II* listed Georgian house in Bath literally straddles a canal

     

    Some people dream of living beside a lake or a river, but a Grade II* listed detached property recently placed on the market in Bath gives anyone with £3.5 million ($4.2 million, €4.5 million or درهم16.6 million) to spare the opportunity to literally live above a man-made waterway.

     

    Cleveland House – originally known as Canal House – stands on top of a bridge and tunnel that straddles the Kennet & Avon Canal and in spite of being built as “one of Europe’s first purpose-built office blocks” has a look that is very much “Georgian domestic”. The limestone ashlar, three-storey building was constructed to the designs of one of Bath’s greatest architects, John Pinch the Elder (1769 – 1827), between 1817 and 1820 and served as the canal’s management headquarters until 1864.

     

    Converted next to residential usage and then requisitioned for government use in 1939, the building again reverted to office usage. A property developer named Trevor Osborne then acquired it and commenced a transformation into what is described as “a truly exceptional Bath residence” in 2015.

     

    Aside from 7,218 square foot of accommodation, including 5 bedrooms and 5 bathrooms, what makes Cleveland House truly remarkable are its entertaining spaces. The 30-foot long former company boardroom, complete with a 20-foot high newly repainted domed ceiling, is now the house’s drawing room and in addition there is a formal dining room and a library. Whilst a fully prepared cinema room and wine cellars are housed in the basement, other points of note are a large, newly built family room, a first floor roof terrace and garaging for four cars.

     

    Cleveland House is offered by Carter Jonas.

     

    Domesticity on a Canal – Grade II* listed Cleveland House, Sydney Road, Bath, BA2 6NR – For sale for £3.5 million ($4.2 million, €4.5 million or درهم16.6 million) through Carter Jonas – Formerly known as Canal House and originally offices of Kennet & Avon Canal Company.Domesticity on a Canal – Grade II* listed Cleveland House, Sydney Road, Bath, BA2 6NR – For sale for £3.5 million ($4.2 million, €4.5 million or درهم16.6 million) through Carter Jonas – Formerly known as Canal House and originally offices of Kennet & Avon Canal Company.Domesticity on a Canal – Grade II* listed Cleveland House, Sydney Road, Bath, BA2 6NR – For sale for £3.5 million ($4.2 million, €4.5 million or درهم16.6 million) through Carter Jonas – Formerly known as Canal House and originally offices of Kennet & Avon Canal Company. Domesticity on a Canal – Grade II* listed Cleveland House, Sydney Road, Bath, BA2 6NR – For sale for £3.5 million ($4.2 million, €4.5 million or درهم16.6 million) through Carter Jonas – Formerly known as Canal House and originally offices of Kennet & Avon Canal Company.Domesticity on a Canal – Grade II* listed Cleveland House, Sydney Road, Bath, BA2 6NR – For sale for £3.5 million ($4.2 million, €4.5 million or درهم16.6 million) through Carter Jonas – Formerly known as Canal House and originally offices of Kennet & Avon Canal Company. Domesticity on a Canal – Grade II* listed Cleveland House, Sydney Road, Bath, BA2 6NR – For sale for £3.5 million ($4.2 million, €4.5 million or درهم16.6 million) through Carter Jonas – Formerly known as Canal House and originally offices of Kennet & Avon Canal Company. Domesticity on a Canal – Grade II* listed Cleveland House, Sydney Road, Bath, BA2 6NR – For sale for £3.5 million ($4.2 million, €4.5 million or درهم16.6 million) through Carter Jonas – Formerly known as Canal House and originally offices of Kennet & Avon Canal Company.Domesticity on a Canal – Grade II* listed Cleveland House, Sydney Road, Bath, BA2 6NR – For sale for £3.5 million ($4.2 million, €4.5 million or درهم16.6 million) through Carter Jonas – Formerly known as Canal House and originally offices of Kennet & Avon Canal Company. Domesticity on a Canal – Grade II* listed Cleveland House, Sydney Road, Bath, BA2 6NR – For sale for £3.5 million ($4.2 million, €4.5 million or درهم16.6 million) through Carter Jonas – Formerly known as Canal House and originally offices of Kennet & Avon Canal Company.Domesticity on a Canal – Grade II* listed Cleveland House, Sydney Road, Bath, BA2 6NR – For sale for £3.5 million ($4.2 million, €4.5 million or درهم16.6 million) through Carter Jonas – Formerly known as Canal House and originally offices of Kennet & Avon Canal Company. Domesticity on a Canal – Grade II* listed Cleveland House, Sydney Road, Bath, BA2 6NR – For sale for £3.5 million ($4.2 million, €4.5 million or درهم16.6 million) through Carter Jonas – Formerly known as Canal House and originally offices of Kennet & Avon Canal Company.