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Magnificent Grade1 Listed Georgian Mansion Venetian Saloon, Impressive Ballrooom Original Hall Accommodation Additional 50 Bedroom Residential Wing The Estate Provides 88 Acres In Total 63 Acres Hill Grazing plus 20 Acres Landscaped Gardens & Walled Kitchen Garden Two Cottages within the Estate Romanesque Style Chapel

THE home which inspired Robert Louis Stevenson to write his classic adventure novel Kidnapped is on the market for £850,000. Story here... The house is here on rightmove Glassingall belonged to the Kynbuck Family from about 1100 to 1455 and the property itself is steeped in history. According to local historian, Archie McKerracher, Old Glassingall House was the original 'House of Shaws' in the famous novel 'Kidnapped' by Robert Louis Stevenson, and the plot was based on the family who lived there at the time.

Stanton Court is a listed Grade II Jacobean Manor House in the Elizabethan style, with projecting gables and angle towers. The house and surrounding walls are constructed from ashlar Cotswold Stone with a stone slate roof. The original U-shape house has been extended over the centuries to include a Georgian double drawing room, cottages and link bridge creating the courtyard, and more recently a stunning garden room and pool suite.

Wentworth Woodhouse sits in 82 acres of gardens, parkland and woodland surrounded by the greater park and farmland of the Fitzwilliam Estate in what was once one of the finest parklands of its age.
Grade 1 listed!