Tag: mansion

  • Perfectly British

    Perfectly British

    An opportunity to create your own version of Downton Abbey in the Cotswolds

     

    For a mere £27 million you can currently purchase a 6-bedroomed mews house in Reeves Mews in Mayfair. Alternatively, a buyer with the same sum to hand could splash out on something a little grander, a 774.32 acre Cotswold estate complete with a mansion, two entrance lodges and eleven cottages. (more…)

  • The house that time forgot

    The house that time forgot

    House where items lay untouched for 100 years remains on the market for over a year

     

    The Hermitage in Hexham, Northumberland is a “small stately home” that truly is a time warp. Rented by the Morant family for nearly 100 years, this Grade II* listed, 14 bedroomed mansion was barely touched during that period. (more…)

  • Drugs and Dents

    Drugs and Dents

    A Cumbrian mansion built by opium traders and more recently used by cannabis growers comes to the market for just £1.5 million

     

    Built by the well-known Dent family, who made their fortune trading both tea and opium, Flass is a vast 23,000 square foot Palladian mansion on the outskirts of the village of Maulds Meaburn in Cumbria. Ironically it was also the setting for one of the country’s biggest drug raids in May 2012. (more…)

  • Mansions for £1

    Mansions for £1

    An English country house that sold for a £1 and a Scottish mansion with an asking price of just £1

     

    Downton Abbey addicts take note: For the same price as a double cheeseburger on McDonald’s saver menu you could live like the Earl and Countess Grantham if you bought a Georgian mansion in Chirnside in Berwickshire (more…)

  • Handeling a house

    Handeling a house

    One of Britain’s finest Queen Anne residences comes to the market

     

    On the market for the first time in 600 years, Grade I listed Malmesbury House in Salisbury, Wiltshire has rightly been described as a “jewel box” of a house. (more…)

  • A dictator’s dream

    A dictator’s dream

    50,000 square foot Utah mansion that would suit an exiled dictator or lottery lout

     

    Money and taste don’t necessarily go together and no more is this rule proven than in a $30 million (£18 million) Utah mansion (more…)

  • A Prodigy house

    A Prodigy house

    A country seat with a prodigious history

     

    Historic Brereton Hall in Brereton, Cheshire is a fine Elizabethan country house but one that has been sadly separated from much of its original estate. (more…)

  • My Mansion

    My Mansion

    My Travel tycoon puts Jersey mansion on the market for £19 million

     

    David Crossland is a fine example of a “Northern lad done good”. Starting out in the 1970s he turned two small travel agencies into a package tour empire and now with the sale of his Jersey mansion, one can see how truly successful this businessman’s career has been. (more…)

  • An orgy of a mansion

    An orgy of a mansion

    Repossessed Somerset mansion goes to auction for just £250,000

     

    It’s rare to find Grade I mansions in the hands of the receivers, but Halswell Park in Somerset is an exception to that rule. Now, Clive Emson auctioneers on behalf of Citi Private Banking, seek just £250,000 to £500,000 for the main house and £635,000 to £960,000 for the entire estate. (more…)

  • Auctioning Oprah

    Auctioning Oprah

    Oprah Winfrey to sell off contents of her Californian mansion

     

    As Oprah Winfrey prepares to turn 60 she’s decided to refresh the décor at her $82 million Californian estate. As a result, the contents of this mansion along with items from her other homes are to be auctioned at the Santa Barbara Polo Club on 2nd November. (more…)