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This one is a lot closer to home than I normally look.
This 5 bedroom house has a swimming pool
The bedroom in the roof space is stunning – I like the floor.
From the front it’s a nice looking house but doesn’t give a hint of the secrets inside!
Craig Y Nos, Penycae, is an amazing neo gothic Victorian Castle. It has over a 100 rooms and is truely impressive! It’s on at a gGuide Price of £1,500,000. The ROCK OF THE NIGHT COUNTRY HOTEL has over 40 bedrooms.
Stunning.
Llanerchydol Hall, Welshpool, Powys is mouthwateringly gorgeous! 13 bedrooms and the most magnificent building you’ve seen for … ok so I might have showed you a castle or two recently, but this one is lovely too!
It has some history too -Llanerchydol was the seat of David Pugh, Esquire, a wealthy tea trader who built the present house in 1776 on the site of a previous house.
The historic landscape was created by renowned architect John Repton
The ceiling in the hall is stunning, with a beautiful arch.
A kitchen with a big aga and a rocking chair!
PDF file of Land registry info out today – right click file save as pdf
Avergae house price £162,109
Monthly change -0.3%
Annual Change -2.6%
— The metropolitan district with the most significant annual price increase
is Manchester, rising by 1.9 per cent.
— Knowsley saw the highest monthly price rise, with an increase of 2.4
per cent.
— Oldham experienced the most significant annual price fall with a movement
of -11.0 per cent.
— The metropolitan district with the greatest monthly price fall of -1.5
per cent during September was Gateshead.
Stats for Greater Manchester
Monthly change – Annual Change – Average price
Bolton -1.1 -4.4 95041
Bury -0.9 08.2 107465
Manchester 2.0 1.9 96679
Oldham -0.2 -11 81968
Rochdale 1.1 -8.4 94462
Stockport -0.2 -2.1 145479
Tameside 0.5 -6.1 97533
Wigan 0.1 -7.3 93752
This stunning 6 bedroom character property for sale with a Guide Price of £2,250,000
The Old Vicarage, Maker Lane, Hoar Cross DE13 8QR
6 bedrooms and the most stunning outside!
Caverswall Castle is a Grade 1 listed moated castle in Blythe Bridge Road, Caverswall, Stoke-On-Trent
Amongst it’s delightful features are 3 Converted turrets: Thomas Moore, Matthew Craddock, Sister Josephine. It also has a Converted gatehouse plus an Old dungeon.
All in there are 11 suites all of which have spacious double bedrooms and decadent en suite bath/shower rooms.
The castle has a long history as you would expect and was built on the site of an Anglo-Saxon Manor, on the spot where two tributaries of the River Blythe meet. Ernulf de Hesing, as Saxon-holder, who was perhaps driven from the estate during the Conquest. From him it passed to Sir William
de Caverswall who incorporated the tributaries to form his moat when he received a “licence to Crenellate” his Saxon Manor house in 1275
The Castle fell into decay until 1615 when Matthew Cradock, Mayor of Stafford and a wealthy merchant, bought and rebuilt it as a Jacobean mansion in about 1625
It is stunning inside with panelling and ceilings!
It isn’t actually the whole castle though as a small part was sold off some years ago.
38,000 acres is an awful lot of land. This 14 bedroom house in Invercauld Estates, Royal Deeside, Aberdeenshire is available for sale.
This is an impressive castle!
You’ll have seen photos of the front door of houses open on photos on rightmove.
It seems to be a classic shot for classic houses.
Cannon Court Farm, Cannon Court Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire has a front door ajar photo. It does seem to be a photo that is only used on expensive houses though. I’ve yet to see one on a run of the mill terrace property.
This amazing house in Salcombe has a fantastic view from the front door so you can see why the estate agent has used a photo of this front door open.
Do we like photos from inside looking out through the front door? Yes, in most cases they show some important architectural feature such as original doors, but often they just show us how nice it’d be to live in a house like that.
This house in Yorkshire has the door open too. It’s the The Old Rectory, Rectory Corner, Brandsby, North Yorkshire. It’s a 7 bedroom lovely looking house too. Got lots of the things I’m looking for too – Principal bedroom with bathroom en suite, guest bedroom suite, bedroom 3 with shower room, 4 further bedrooms, shower room, separate w.c, 2 bedroom cottage/annexe. It also has a Detached cottage with private rear garden.
Stable courtyard with loose boxes, stables, garaging for 3 cars, general purpose building with workshop.
Coach house with swimming pool, gymnasium and leisure suite.
Walled and lawned gardens with ha-ha, conservatory and tennis court. Woodland, pasture, stream-fed lake.
Ogle Castle had to be included not because of the name, although it’s an intriguing one that will catch your eye!
It’s rightmove description says “Ogle Castle is believed to be one of the oldest inhabited buildings in Northumberland. Occupation of this property dates back to 1341” – read more at Ogle Castle’s rightmove page
Grade I listed building with 9 bedrooms.
Some stunning features inside the house and outside.