Britain’s oldest constantly inhabited home, which has hyperlinks to a number of monarchs, could possibly be yours for a cool £11m.
Nice Tangley Manor was seemingly King John’s searching lodge within the twelfth century and was usually visited by royalty within the nineteenth and twentieth century.
The grand house boasts virtually ten acres of land with a moat, an indoor swimming pool, a helicopter hangar and a Second World Struggle air-raid shelter.
It even has signatures left by King George V, Queen Mary and King George VI on a number of of the home windows.
The historic house in Wonersh, Surrey, is Grade I listed and has foundations relationship from 1016, in addition to timbers from the Spanish Armada.
A part of the constructing was misplaced in a fireplace and partially rebuilt as a medieval corridor home with a Tudor frontage added in 1582
The historic house in Wonersh, Surrey, is Grade I listed and has foundations relationship from 1016, in addition to timbers from the Spanish Armada
A part of the constructing was misplaced in a fireplace and partially rebuilt as a medieval corridor home with a Tudor frontage added in 1582.
The proprietor of the home at the moment contributed to the Crown throughout the battle towards the Spanish and was given some timbers from the Spanish Armada as a thanks, which are actually within the eating room.
The property was owned by the Caryl household from the sixteenth century till the nineteenth century. It was purchased by Wickham Flower, a founding member of the Society for the Preservation of Historical Buildings, in 1885.
He commissioned architect Philip Webb and designer William Morris to design extensions and furnishings.
Throughout his time, Nice Tangley was additionally visited by Gertrude Jekyll and Edwin Lutyens and Bloomsbury Group members Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell once they have been youngsters.
The grand constructing of Nice Tangley Manor was seemingly King John’s searching lodge within the twelfth century
After Flowers died, MP Colonel Hegan Kennard purchased the manor and it was throughout his tenure the property was usually visited by royalty.
Edward VII and Alexandra usually visited and Alice Keppel, Edward’s long-time mistress and the great-grandmother of Queen Consort Camilla, additionally visited.
When the home was taken over by Kennard’s daughter Victoria and her husband Frederick Ponsonby, the home was visited by Queen Mary and King George V.
King George V and Queen Mary signed the eating room window with a diamond ring and King George VI’s signature may also be seen on the dressing room home windows of the master bedroom.
It was additionally a summer time house to a Vanderbilt heiress in 1913.
The present homeowners purchased the property in two levels, because it had been divided, and have carried out in depth works to return it to 1 grand manor, however have rented out one wing for luxurious vacation lets.
Nice Tangley Manor additionally options signatures left by King George V, Queen Mary and King George VI on a number of of the home windows
The property was purchased by Wickham Flower, a founding member of the Society for the Preservation of Historical Buildings, in 1885 earlier than it was purchased by MP Colonel Hegan Kennard
The home was additionally used as a filming location for Miss Marple’s The Shifting Finger in 2006.
The principle home has over 11,000 sq ft of lodging together with ten bedrooms, a number of spectacular reception rooms and 6 bogs, in addition to a 40ft indoor swimming pool and sauna.
Oliver Custance Baker from Strutt & Parker mentioned: ‘Houses like Nice Tangley Manor do not come to the market fairly often and the launch of its sale is but simply one other second on this constructing’s lengthy historical past.
‘For someplace that celebrated its millennium in 2016 it is very particular to be a part of the method that’s discovering the subsequent custodian of such an necessary piece of this nation’s heritage.
‘The home, though spectacular in stature and measurement, is welcoming, reassuring and charming.
‘From timbers relationship from the early eleventh century, Saxon partitions and the moat, to etchings from George V, Queen Mary, and George VI on the window panes, there is not any hiding the tales that make up the material of this house.
Nice Tangley has advanced over time with every addition and renovation being rigorously designed and carried out by the most effective craftsmen of the day
The home was additionally used as a filming location for Miss Marple’s The Shifting Finger in 2006
The present homeowners purchased the property in two levels, because it had been divided, and have carried out in depth works to return it to 1 grand manor
‘Additional to this, the home supplies modern-day residing to enrich such a wealthy historical past with the indoor swimming pool, Biomass boiler, and helicopter hanger.
‘The present homeowners have rigorously pieced the home again along with nice consideration and consciousness, and are testomony to Nice Tangley Manor.
‘The home is an excellent instance of constructing upon an present construction in a sympathetic manner, each throughout the Arts & Crafts actions and within the many years since.’
The grand house boasts virtually ten acres of land with a moat, an indoor swimming pool, a helicopter hangar and a Second World Struggle air-raid shelter
Phillipa Dalby Welsh from Savills added: ‘Nice Tangley Manor is solely essentially the most lovely and historic nation home I’ve seen in a really very long time.
‘With a house being on the positioning for over a thousand years and presumably the longest inhabited home in Britain, naturally Nice Tangley has advanced over time with every addition and renovation being rigorously designed and carried out by the most effective craftsmen of the day.
The principle home has over 11,000 sq ft of lodging together with ten bedrooms, a number of spectacular reception rooms and 6 bogs, in addition to a 40ft indoor swimming pool and sauna
‘The house has been witness to a lot historical past and that is evident from the second you see the fabulous moated gardens, not to mention once you step via the entrance door. Not many properties can lay declare to as soon as being a twelfth century Royal searching lodge, having timbers seemingly from the Spanish Armada, a William Morris design named after it that featured in Queen Victoria’s Windsor residences and renovations by one of many Britain’s most iconic Arts & Crafts architects.
‘Nice Tangley’s subsequent custodians will be capable of reside in a historic, but snug house that enjoys an indoor pool via to electrical automobile charging factors.
‘It is a home that’s testomony to how achieved accurately, properties can change and develop over time to go well with the wants of their homeowners, but not detract from its architectural integrity and unimaginable historical past.’
