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  • Parking a Farmhouse

    Parking a Farmhouse

    Listed Cumbrian time warp farmhouse goes on sale for less than the price of an open-air parking space in London, W2

    A detached, 17th century farmhouse in Cumbria’s Eden Valley has gone on sale for just £290,000 ($378,000, €321,000 or درهم1.4 million) or £10,000 less than the price of an open-air car parking space in London, W2.

     

    Previously listed last year for £225,000 as part of the £2.3 million sale of a 344-acre farm – where then agents Carter Jonas ultimately received 18 offers – Newbiggin Hall Farmhouse at Newbiggin is now marketed by Eden Estate Agents simply with its gardens.

     

    The 4-bedroom house is in need of complete refurbishment but with 2,291 square foot of accommodation and a price that thus equates to the paltry sum of £127 per square foot, it does indeed seem like a genuine bargain.

    The selling agents comment: “The property is Grade II listed and has retained many charming period features, including exposed beams, paneling, feature windows and sandstone flags and stairs. This is a fascinating renovation project with a great deal of potential.”

    Parking a Farmhouse – Newbiggin Hall Farm, Newbiggin, Temple Sowerby, Eden Valley, Cumbria, CA10 1TB, United Kingdom – Grade II listed farmhouse for sale for £290,000 ($378,000, €321,000 or درهم1.4 million) through Eden Estate AgentsParking a Farmhouse – Newbiggin Hall Farm, Newbiggin, Temple Sowerby, Eden Valley, Cumbria, CA10 1TB, United Kingdom – Grade II listed farmhouse for sale for £290,000 ($378,000, €321,000 or درهم1.4 million) through Eden Estate Agents

  • An Epic Estate

    An Epic Estate

    Scottish sporting estate, once home to Sir Walter Scott, for sale; it comes with nearly two miles of fishing on the River Tweed, 863 acres of land and seven houses

     

    The Scottish estate where Sir Walter Scott, Bt. (1771 – 1732) wrote his narrative poems Lay of the Minstrel and The Lady of the Lake and his epic, Marmion, has recently been placed for sale for £5.5 million ($7.1 million, €6.4 million or درهم26.2 million).

     

    Offered by Savills and leased by the novelist, playwright and poet from 1804 to 1812, Ashiestiel House in Selkirkshire stands above in 863 acres above the River Tweed and is 35 miles from the centre of Edinburgh. It comes with six further dwellings, 1¾ miles of salmon and sea trout fishing on the River Tweed, an in-hand stock farm, commercial forestry, a pheasant shooting, duck flighting and equestrian facilities.

     

    An Epic Estate – Ashiestiel, Clovenfords, Lauderdale, Selkirkshire, Scotland, TD1 3LJ, United Kingdom – For sale through Savills for £5.5 million ($7.1 million, €6.4 million or درهم26.2 million)
    Sir Walter Scott, Bt. (1771 – 1732) was the tenant of Ashiestiel for eight years prior to moving to Abbotsford, an estate he eventually expanded to some 1,000 acres
    An Epic Estate – Ashiestiel, Clovenfords, Lauderdale, Selkirkshire, Scotland, TD1 3LJ, United Kingdom – For sale through Savills for £5.5 million ($7.1 million, €6.4 million or درهم26.2 million)
    An Epic Estate – Ashiestiel, Clovenfords, Lauderdale, Selkirkshire, Scotland, TD1 3LJ, United Kingdom

     

    Extending to 10,360 square foot and renovated in 2011, the estate’s Grade A listed main residence includes 5 reception rooms, 9 bedrooms and 7 bathrooms. It dates to the 17th century and amongst its features are a peel tower and space described as suitable for entertaining “on a grand scale”.

     

    Ashiestiel was last placed on the market – with just 24 acres of land and its two gate lodges – for £1.75 million in 2009 (the equivalent of £2.15 million, $2.79 million, €2.48 million or درهم10.26 million today). At the time, then owner and joint master of the Buccleuch hunt, Robert Claydon, told The Telegraph:

     

    “I’ve come back from cubbing and caught a salmon at the end of the garden. It’s very wild countryside – south of us you won’t hit a road for 10 miles. It was the best move we ever made coming here. We escaped the rat race – people understand the countryside up here”.

     

    An Epic Estate – Ashiestiel, Clovenfords, Lauderdale, Selkirkshire, Scotland, TD1 3LJ, United Kingdom – For sale through Savills for £5.5 million ($7.1 million, €6.4 million or درهم26.2 million) An Epic Estate – Ashiestiel, Clovenfords, Lauderdale, Selkirkshire, Scotland, TD1 3LJ, United Kingdom – For sale through Savills for £5.5 million ($7.1 million, €6.4 million or درهم26.2 million)An Epic Estate – Ashiestiel, Clovenfords, Lauderdale, Selkirkshire, Scotland, TD1 3LJ, United Kingdom – For sale through Savills for £5.5 million ($7.1 million, €6.4 million or درهم26.2 million)An Epic Estate – Ashiestiel, Clovenfords, Lauderdale, Selkirkshire, Scotland, TD1 3LJ, United Kingdom – For sale through Savills for £5.5 million ($7.1 million, €6.4 million or درهم26.2 million)An Epic Estate – Ashiestiel, Clovenfords, Lauderdale, Selkirkshire, Scotland, TD1 3LJ, United Kingdom – For sale through Savills for £5.5 million ($7.1 million, €6.4 million or درهم26.2 million) An Epic Estate – Ashiestiel, Clovenfords, Lauderdale, Selkirkshire, Scotland, TD1 3LJ, United Kingdom – For sale through Savills for £5.5 million ($7.1 million, €6.4 million or درهم26.2 million) An Epic Estate – Ashiestiel, Clovenfords, Lauderdale, Selkirkshire, Scotland, TD1 3LJ, United Kingdom – For sale through Savills for £5.5 million ($7.1 million, €6.4 million or درهم26.2 million)An Epic Estate – Ashiestiel, Clovenfords, Lauderdale, Selkirkshire, Scotland, TD1 3LJ, United Kingdom – For sale through Savills for £5.5 million ($7.1 million, €6.4 million or درهم26.2 million) An Epic Estate – Ashiestiel, Clovenfords, Lauderdale, Selkirkshire, Scotland, TD1 3LJ, United Kingdom – For sale through Savills for £5.5 million ($7.1 million, €6.4 million or درهم26.2 million)An Epic Estate – Ashiestiel, Clovenfords, Lauderdale, Selkirkshire, Scotland, TD1 3LJ, United Kingdom – For sale through Savills for £5.5 million ($7.1 million, €6.4 million or درهم26.2 million)An Epic Estate – Ashiestiel, Clovenfords, Lauderdale, Selkirkshire, Scotland, TD1 3LJ, United Kingdom – For sale through Savills for £5.5 million ($7.1 million, €6.4 million or درهم26.2 million)An Epic Estate – Ashiestiel, Clovenfords, Lauderdale, Selkirkshire, Scotland, TD1 3LJ, United Kingdom – For sale through Savills for £5.5 million ($7.1 million, €6.4 million or درهم26.2 million) An Epic Estate – Ashiestiel, Clovenfords, Lauderdale, Selkirkshire, Scotland, TD1 3LJ, United Kingdom – For sale through Savills for £5.5 million ($7.1 million, €6.4 million or درهم26.2 million)An Epic Estate – Ashiestiel, Clovenfords, Lauderdale, Selkirkshire, Scotland, TD1 3LJ, United Kingdom – For sale through Savills for £5.5 million ($7.1 million, €6.4 million or درهم26.2 million)

  • A £5 Million Fixer-Upper

    A £5 Million Fixer-Upper

    17th century Buckinghamshire farmstead requiring complete renovation for sale for £5 million

     

    A 17th century farmhouse just 28 miles from Central London has gone on sale for £5 million ($6.5 million, €5.9 million or درهم23.7 million) in spite of being “in need of updating” through agents The Frost Partnership.

     

    Dean Farm at Jordans, near Beaconsfield in Buckinghamshire was built on the site of a 12th century farmstead and includes not only a listed 4 reception room, 5 bedroom main house but also a 2 bedroom annexe and a 2 bedroom and a 1 bedroom cottage. Within the grounds are a 117-foot long listed tithe barn, a listed granary, a gardener’s studio and a double garage.

     

    The semi-rural freehold property stands on a plot of 6.4 acres of gardens and paddocks and comes with a further 3.7 acres of leasehold land.

     

    A £5 Million Fixer-Upper – Dean Farm, Long Bottom Lane, Jordans, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, HP9 2UT – For sale for £5 million ($6.5 million, €5.9 million or درهم23.7 million) through The Frost PartnershipA £5 Million Fixer-Upper – Dean Farm, Long Bottom Lane, Jordans, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, HP9 2UT – For sale for £5 million ($6.5 million, €5.9 million or درهم23.7 million) through The Frost PartnershipA £5 Million Fixer-Upper – Dean Farm, Long Bottom Lane, Jordans, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, HP9 2UT – For sale for £5 million ($6.5 million, €5.9 million or درهم23.7 million) through The Frost PartnershipA £5 Million Fixer-Upper – Dean Farm, Long Bottom Lane, Jordans, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, HP9 2UT – For sale for £5 million ($6.5 million, €5.9 million or درهم23.7 million) through The Frost Partnership A £5 Million Fixer-Upper – Dean Farm, Long Bottom Lane, Jordans, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, HP9 2UT – For sale for £5 million ($6.5 million, €5.9 million or درهم23.7 million) through The Frost Partnership A £5 Million Fixer-Upper – Dean Farm, Long Bottom Lane, Jordans, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, HP9 2UT – For sale for £5 million ($6.5 million, €5.9 million or درهم23.7 million) through The Frost PartnershipA £5 Million Fixer-Upper – Dean Farm, Long Bottom Lane, Jordans, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, HP9 2UT – For sale for £5 million ($6.5 million, €5.9 million or درهم23.7 million) through The Frost Partnership A £5 Million Fixer-Upper – Dean Farm, Long Bottom Lane, Jordans, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, HP9 2UT – For sale for £5 million ($6.5 million, €5.9 million or درهم23.7 million) through The Frost Partnership

  • Checkmate

    Checkmate

    Former Lancashire farmhouse for sale for £1.69 million complete with giant chessboard

     

    Until recently used as a holiday cottage rental, Low House at Eskrigge in Lancashire is described by selling agents Matthews Benjamin as “a joy to behold”.

     

    Checkmate – Low House, Eskrigge, Gressingham, Lancaster, Lancashire, LA2 8LX – For sale with Matthews Benjamin Fine & Country – Reduced in price from £1.79 million ($2.24 million, €2.11 million or درهم7.78 million) to £1.69 million ($2.12 million, €1.99 million or درهم8.24 million)
    Low House, Eskrigge, Gressingham, Lancaster, Lancashire, LA2 8LX
    Checkmate – Low House, Eskrigge, Gressingham, Lancaster, Lancashire, LA2 8LX – For sale with Matthews Benjamin Fine & Country – Reduced in price from £1.79 million ($2.24 million, €2.11 million or درهم7.78 million) to £1.69 million ($2.12 million, €1.99 million or درهم8.24 million)
    Fancy a game of chess?
    Checkmate – Low House, Eskrigge, Gressingham, Lancaster, Lancashire, LA2 8LX – For sale with Matthews Benjamin Fine & Country – Reduced in price from £1.79 million ($2.24 million, €2.11 million or درهم7.78 million) to £1.69 million ($2.12 million, €1.99 million or درهم8.24 million)
    Or a dip in the hot tub?

     

    Dating to the late 17th century and originally a farmhouse and barn, this 4,490 square foot Grade II listed property stands in 1.5 acres of gardens, 2.5 acres of woodland and 4 acres of paddocks. It has 4 reception rooms, 2 kitchens, 6 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms and comes with a number of follies, a hot tub and a giant chessboard.

     

    Reduced in price from £1.79 million ($2.24 million, €2.11 million or درهم7.78 million) to £1.69 million ($2.12 million, €1.99 million or درهم8.24 million), Low House is just seven miles from Lancaster.

     

    Checkmate – Low House, Eskrigge, Gressingham, Lancaster, Lancashire, LA2 8LX – For sale with Matthews Benjamin Fine & Country – Reduced in price from £1.79 million ($2.24 million, €2.11 million or درهم7.78 million) to £1.69 million ($2.12 million, €1.99 million or درهم8.24 million)Checkmate – Low House, Eskrigge, Gressingham, Lancaster, Lancashire, LA2 8LX – For sale with Matthews Benjamin Fine & Country – Reduced in price from £1.79 million ($2.24 million, €2.11 million or درهم7.78 million) to £1.69 million ($2.12 million, €1.99 million or درهم8.24 million)Checkmate – Low House, Eskrigge, Gressingham, Lancaster, Lancashire, LA2 8LX – For sale with Matthews Benjamin Fine & Country – Reduced in price from £1.79 million ($2.24 million, €2.11 million or درهم7.78 million) to £1.69 million ($2.12 million, €1.99 million or درهم8.24 million)Checkmate – Low House, Eskrigge, Gressingham, Lancaster, Lancashire, LA2 8LX – For sale with Matthews Benjamin Fine & Country – Reduced in price from £1.79 million ($2.24 million, €2.11 million or درهم7.78 million) to £1.69 million ($2.12 million, €1.99 million or درهم8.24 million) Checkmate – Low House, Eskrigge, Gressingham, Lancaster, Lancashire, LA2 8LX – For sale with Matthews Benjamin Fine & Country – Reduced in price from £1.79 million ($2.24 million, €2.11 million or درهم7.78 million) to £1.69 million ($2.12 million, €1.99 million or درهم8.24 million) Checkmate – Low House, Eskrigge, Gressingham, Lancaster, Lancashire, LA2 8LX – For sale with Matthews Benjamin Fine & Country – Reduced in price from £1.79 million ($2.24 million, €2.11 million or درهم7.78 million) to £1.69 million ($2.12 million, €1.99 million or درهم8.24 million)Checkmate – Low House, Eskrigge, Gressingham, Lancaster, Lancashire, LA2 8LX – For sale with Matthews Benjamin Fine & Country – Reduced in price from £1.79 million ($2.24 million, €2.11 million or درهم7.78 million) to £1.69 million ($2.12 million, €1.99 million or درهم8.24 million) Checkmate – Low House, Eskrigge, Gressingham, Lancaster, Lancashire, LA2 8LX – For sale with Matthews Benjamin Fine & Country – Reduced in price from £1.79 million ($2.24 million, €2.11 million or درهم7.78 million) to £1.69 million ($2.12 million, €1.99 million or درهم8.24 million) Checkmate – Low House, Eskrigge, Gressingham, Lancaster, Lancashire, LA2 8LX – For sale with Matthews Benjamin Fine & Country – Reduced in price from £1.79 million ($2.24 million, €2.11 million or درهم7.78 million) to £1.69 million ($2.12 million, €1.99 million or درهم8.24 million)Checkmate – Low House, Eskrigge, Gressingham, Lancaster, Lancashire, LA2 8LX – For sale with Matthews Benjamin Fine & Country – Reduced in price from £1.79 million ($2.24 million, €2.11 million or درهم7.78 million) to £1.69 million ($2.12 million, €1.99 million or درهم8.24 million) Checkmate – Low House, Eskrigge, Gressingham, Lancaster, Lancashire, LA2 8LX – For sale with Matthews Benjamin Fine & Country – Reduced in price from £1.79 million ($2.24 million, €2.11 million or درهم7.78 million) to £1.69 million ($2.12 million, €1.99 million or درهم8.24 million) Checkmate – Low House, Eskrigge, Gressingham, Lancaster, Lancashire, LA2 8LX – For sale with Matthews Benjamin Fine & Country – Reduced in price from £1.79 million ($2.24 million, €2.11 million or درهم7.78 million) to £1.69 million ($2.12 million, €1.99 million or درهم8.24 million)Checkmate – Low House, Eskrigge, Gressingham, Lancaster, Lancashire, LA2 8LX – For sale with Matthews Benjamin Fine & Country – Reduced in price from £1.79 million ($2.24 million, €2.11 million or درهم7.78 million) to £1.69 million ($2.12 million, €1.99 million or درهم8.24 million)Checkmate – Low House, Eskrigge, Gressingham, Lancaster, Lancashire, LA2 8LX – For sale with Matthews Benjamin Fine & Country – Reduced in price from £1.79 million ($2.24 million, €2.11 million or درهم7.78 million) to £1.69 million ($2.12 million, €1.99 million or درهم8.24 million)

  • Painting & Poetry

    Painting & Poetry

    North Yorkshire mill house complete with its own valley for sale; Wordsworth waxed lyrical about its setting and Turner painted it

     

    Described as “a delightful and delicious valley” by the Romantic poet William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850) in 1799 in a letter to his friend and fellow poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834), Mill Gill outside Askrigg in Wensleydale, North Yorkshire has more recently been described as a “real hidden gem”.

     

    Sketched also in 1816 by the Romanticist landscape painter J. M. W. Turner (1775 – 1851), the valley is the setting for Mill Gill House, a 6-bedroom stone-built residence that dates to 1721. For sale currently for £850,000 ($1.06 million, €987,000 or درهم3.91 million), the 2,604 square foot house stands in 18 acres of grassland, woodland and ponds. It comes with a “historic relic” 3-storey sawmill complex complete with original machinery, a 2-storey coach house, a high eaved field barn and a 2-storey dovecote.

     

    Of their time at what they call a “mini-estate”, current owner Professor David Blake told The Yorkshire Post:

     

    “I fell for it and so did my wife [Rita], who is a mad keen gardener. It’s such a beautiful place… I’d like to see the mill kept as a workshop and used by an artisan, maybe by a potter or a joiner. That would our ideal buyer”.

     

    “We will miss it and we really don’t want to go. We are just about to take our daily walk. We go and feed the hens and then we feed the ducks on the pond and then we carry on to the tip of the waterfall. It’s the walk Wordsworth did and in summer when everything is blooming, it is even more beautiful. So much so it makes you want to cry”.

     

    Grade II listed Mill Gill House is being marketed by estate agents Robin Jessop.

     

    Painting & Poetry – Mill Gill House, Askrigg, Leyburn, North Yorkshire, DL8 3HR – For sale through Robin Jessop for £850,000 ($1.06 million, €987,000 or درهم3.91 million)Painting & Poetry – Mill Gill House, Askrigg, Leyburn, North Yorkshire, DL8 3HR – For sale through Robin Jessop for £850,000 ($1.06 million, €987,000 or درهم3.91 million)Painting & Poetry – Mill Gill House, Askrigg, Leyburn, North Yorkshire, DL8 3HR – For sale through Robin Jessop for £850,000 ($1.06 million, €987,000 or درهم3.91 million) Painting & Poetry – Mill Gill House, Askrigg, Leyburn, North Yorkshire, DL8 3HR – For sale through Robin Jessop for £850,000 ($1.06 million, €987,000 or درهم3.91 million)Painting & Poetry – Mill Gill House, Askrigg, Leyburn, North Yorkshire, DL8 3HR – For sale through Robin Jessop for £850,000 ($1.06 million, €987,000 or درهم3.91 million)Painting & Poetry – Mill Gill House, Askrigg, Leyburn, North Yorkshire, DL8 3HR – For sale through Robin Jessop for £850,000 ($1.06 million, €987,000 or درهم3.91 million)Painting & Poetry – Mill Gill House, Askrigg, Leyburn, North Yorkshire, DL8 3HR – For sale through Robin Jessop for £850,000 ($1.06 million, €987,000 or درهم3.91 million)Painting & Poetry – Mill Gill House, Askrigg, Leyburn, North Yorkshire, DL8 3HR – For sale through Robin Jessop for £850,000 ($1.06 million, €987,000 or درهم3.91 million)Painting & Poetry – Mill Gill House, Askrigg, Leyburn, North Yorkshire, DL8 3HR – For sale through Robin Jessop for £850,000 ($1.06 million, €987,000 or درهم3.91 million)Painting & Poetry – Mill Gill House, Askrigg, Leyburn, North Yorkshire, DL8 3HR – For sale through Robin Jessop for £850,000 ($1.06 million, €987,000 or درهم3.91 million)Painting & Poetry – Mill Gill House, Askrigg, Leyburn, North Yorkshire, DL8 3HR – For sale through Robin Jessop for £850,000 ($1.06 million, €987,000 or درهم3.91 million)Painting & Poetry – Mill Gill House, Askrigg, Leyburn, North Yorkshire, DL8 3HR – For sale through Robin Jessop for £850,000 ($1.06 million, €987,000 or درهم3.91 million)

  • Fire up the PJ

    Fire up the PJ

    £45.7 million Virginia estate of the late Paul and Bunny Mellon complete with its own private one-mile long airstrip now available in lots (more…)

  • A roofless repo

    A roofless repo

    £3 million sought for a repossessed, roofless shell set in 1,530 acres of Cumbrian countryside (more…)

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    Five of the Best: Rambling ruins

    Five British mansions that require new owners with bottomless pockets for sale at prices from £950,000 to over £10 million (more…)

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    Lauding Lucas

    George Lucas’ decision to build affordable housing on his estate is commendable – the Candy brothers in London should take note

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  • Manthe Penton Harrap

    Manthe Penton Harrap

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