An historic nation manor as soon as purchased by famend creator and playwright JB Priestley for £2,000 is now in the marketplace for £3m.
The ‘An Inspector Calls’ creator lived at Billingham Manor on the Isle of Wight within the after buying the 15 acres of land again in 1933.
He penned his autobiographical work Rain Upon Godshill (1939) within the research he had constructed there, though this extension is not there.
The property itself additionally boasts a wealthy historical past courting again to the Domesday Guide and had hyperlinks to smugglers within the seventeenth century.
The property now consists of a Grade II Listed six-bedroom home, a indifferent cottage, farm buildings and 130 acres of land.

Pictured: The historic nation manor as soon as owned by famend creator and playwright JB Priestley is in the marketplace for £3m

Pictured: Billingham Manor on the Isle of Wright he purchased by Priestley for £2000 in 1933


Pictured: Priestley writing as a younger man (left) after which later in life (proper). His former residence Billingham Manor is taken into account one of many Isle of Wight’s architectural gems
Billingham Manor is taken into account one of many Isle of Wight’s architectural gems and has quite a lot of spectacular options together with a Queen Anne oak staircase and an oak panelled room with a rotating bookcase hidden by a sliding panel, which supplies entry to a passage below the manor that was believed to have been utilized by smugglers.
Proprietor ship of the Manor dates again to 1085 when it belonged to Williams Fitz Stur, earlier than it was remodelled to its present state in about 1730 by politician Edward Worsley.
Priestley later lived at one other property on the island, Brook Hill Home, the place he held concert events and entertained visitors from the humanities and science worlds.
The property has 6,862 sq ft of lodging with a big cellar, an entrance corridor, drawing room, sitting room, billiard room and kitchen/breakfast room on the bottom ground.
There are six bedrooms and three bogs on the primary ground and the highest ground has 4 giant attic rooms, which aren’t presently liveable however may very well be transformed topic to planning.
The home is in a secluded place, surrounded by its personal land in an space of excellent pure magnificence and inside a brief drive of the island’s seashores.
The formal gardens embrace a walled backyard and several other ponds. There’s additionally a stone terrace with gorgeous 180-degree views throughout property land.

The home boasts a Queen Anne oak staircase and an oak panelled room with a rotating bookcase hidden by a sliding panel, which supplies entry to a passage below the manor that was believed to have been utilized by smugglers

The property itself additionally boasts a wealthy historical past courting again to the Domesday Guide and had hyperlinks to smugglers within the seventeenth century

The property has 6,862 sq ft of lodging with a big cellar, an entrance corridor, drawing room, sitting room, billiard room and kitchen/breakfast room on the bottom ground

The formal gardens embrace a walled backyard and several other ponds. There’s additionally a stone terrace with gorgeous 180-degree views throughout property land
The home and gardens prolong to five.52 acres, there’s additionally a two-bedroom thatched cottage that sits in its personal plot of 0.24 of an acre.
It’s surrounded by one other 123 acres of a mix of arable, pasture and woodland.
James Attrill, accomplice at BCM, who’re promoting the property, mentioned: ‘Billingham Manor is a uncommon discover – and the primary time to the marketplace for over 45 years.
‘The historical past is fascinating and the property gives actual privateness looking over the prettiest of Island views.
‘The land and barns provide nice scope for these wanting to boost the property additional. It truly is the whole bundle.’