The beautiful residence of a household toy maker is in the marketplace for £1.75m in Dorking, Surrey.
Grade II Listed Misbrooks Farm is the house of the Jaques household, of Jaques London.
The well-known household enterprise was established eight generations in the past in 1795 and is accountable for inventing video games resembling croquet, ping pong, Pleased Households and Snap.
Misbrooks Farm, which dates again to about 1500, has been the household’s residence since 1974 and Joe Jaques remembers his father John making an attempt out new toys on him and his siblings there earlier than Jaques London launched them.
Grade II Listed Misbrooks Farm is the house of the Jaques household and is on sale for £1.75m in Dorking, Surrey
It dates again to about 1500, has been the household’s residence since 1974 and Joe Jaques remembers his father John making an attempt out new toys on him and his siblings there earlier than Jaques London launched them. This contains croquet, ping pong, Pleased Households and Snap
The six-bedroom farmhouse, which has over ten acres of land with an orchard, woodland, tennis courtroom and croquet garden, is in the marketplace with Jackson-Stops.
The farmhouse was initially constructed as a four-bay open corridor home and has many attention-grabbing interval options together with uncovered beams and a good-looking oak staircase.
It additionally has a singular enclosed central courtyard, former previous granary and cart shed with a fifteenth century bread oven.
The property is in the marketplace for the primary time in practically half a century and would now profit from some refurbishment.
It’s a six bed room farmhouse with an entrance corridor, eating corridor, drawing room, household room, kitchen/breakfast room and bake room on the bottom flooring
It has 3,875 sq ft of lodging and the outbuildings present one other 3,400 sq ft with garages, barns, retailer rooms and a workshop
Joe Jaques stated: ‘Certainly one of my favorite rooms in the home, the place I’ve a few of the strongest reminiscences, is the previous hallway the place we saved our snooker, ping pong and pool desk’
It has 3,875 sq ft of lodging with an entrance corridor, eating corridor, drawing room, household room, kitchen/breakfast room and bake room on the bottom flooring. Upstairs there may be six bedrooms and two loos.
The outbuildings present one other 3,400 sq ft with garages, barns, retailer rooms and a workshop.
The grounds embrace a partly-walled backyard, a big grazing discipline with a stream and mature woodland, a longtime orchard and an all-weather tennis courtroom.
Misbrooks Farm is in an unspoilt rural space close to the village of Capel, close to Dorking, Surrey.
Joe Jaques stated: ‘Each pocket of the home revealed a brand new degree of pleasure, we have been in a position to be fully free-spirited.
‘Certainly one of my favorite rooms in the home, the place I’ve a few of the strongest reminiscences, is the previous hallway the place we saved our snooker, ping pong and pool desk.
‘My household invented ping pong in 1901 and we at all times used to play ping pong when my dad acquired residence from work.
The grounds embrace a partly-walled backyard, a big grazing discipline with a stream and mature woodland, a longtime orchard and an all-weather tennis courtroom
Darrell Hughes from Jackson-Stops stated: ‘While it is in want of modernisation, Misbrooks Farm presents a singular alternative to revive and preserve this necessary and historic farmhouse, offering a clear slate for the following household to make lifelong reminiscences’
‘As you may think about, Christmas was at all times about household video games. We’re an enormous gamily and mum at all times stuffed the home with toys and other people at Christmas.
‘I bear in mind us all gathering across the inglenook hearth and taking part in chess and backgammon.
‘We invented croquet in 1862 and it has at all times been a favorite household previous time, we might play on the croquet garden all 12 months spherical.
‘I learnt to experience my bike round croquet hoops and the entrance pond.
‘My dad would trial the toys on me and my siblings on the garden. Some went on to be massively profitable and others have been extra haphazard. We have been all massively aggressive.
‘It was an incredible place to develop up. Our lungs have been at all times stuffed with recent air and our footwear muddy. The home facilitated all our bizarre issues.
‘My childhood undoubtedly influenced my creativity now; we consider 50 new toys a 12 months at Jaques. The wood toys we make are a by-product of the place I grew up amongst the uncovered timbers and woodland.
‘Video games are so necessary in facilitating your capability to be taught, having area to let your creativity develop and run free is so necessary.’
Jaques London received Household Enterprise of the Yr 2022 and the enterprise has grown by 50 per cent within the final eight years.
It has a protracted and attention-grabbing historical past. John Jaques II launched croquet to the world in 1862. He was shut associates with Sir John Tenniel, the unique illustrator of Alice in Wonderland, which led to the inclusion of croquet within the story.
Tenniel additionally helped design Jaques video games like Pleased Households and Snap.
Grounds prolong to over 10 acres within the model of a basic English nation backyard
Throughout the Second World Battle, the corporate helped MI9 support British and American POWs escape by hiding provides in chess items.
The enterprise moved from London to Surrey through the Blitz.
Darrell Hughes from Jackson-Stops stated: ‘Misbrooks Farm has been within the Jaques household for nearly half a century and presents a uncommon alternative for a purchaser to buy an impressive Grade II listed farmhouse with over 500 years of historical past.
The property has developed over the centuries providing each in depth and versatile lodging, ideally suited for a rising household.
‘Misbrooks Farm shows many charming interval traits, together with uncovered timbers, half Horsham stone roof, an oak staircase and grand hearth.
Grounds prolong to over 10 acres within the model of a basic English nation backyard, combining farmland, woodland, and an all-weather tennis-court.
‘While it is in want of modernisation, Misbrooks Farm presents a singular alternative to revive and preserve this necessary and historic farmhouse, offering a clear slate for the following household to make lifelong reminiscences.’
