• Billingham Manor on the Isle of Wight was purchased in 1933 by Priestley
  • He wrote his autobiographical work Rain Upon Godshill (1939) within the research there
  • The property now consists of a six-bedroom home, a indifferent cottage, farm buildings and 130 acres of land

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 country manor once owned by renowned author and playwright JB Priestley is on the market for £3m

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 bought by Priestley for £2000 in 1933

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

John Boynton Priestley as a young man at his writing desk

Priestley published over 150 works throughout his life

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

JB Priestley: The frontline soldier-turned-author who rejected a knighthood and peerage  

John Boynton Priestley was born in 1894 in Yorkshire. He served on the frontline in WWI earlier than finding out English Literature at Cambridge.

He rose to fame within the late Twenties, particularly together with his 1929 novel The Good Companions a couple of group of travelling performers.

Within the Nineteen Thirties he centered extra on performs, which might lead him to write down his most well-known play ‘An Inspector Calls’ in 1945.

Priestley continued to publish properly into the Nineteen Seventies and in complete revealed round 150 works.

He refused each a knighthood and a peerage, however he accepted the Order of Advantage in 1977, because it got here instantly from the Queen.

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 house boasts a Queen Anne oak staircase and an oak panelled room with a rotating bookcase hidden by a sliding panel, which provides access to a passage under the manor that was believed to have been used by smugglers

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 estate itself also boasts a rich history dating back to the Domesday Book and had links to smugglers in the 17th century

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 estate has 6,862 sq ft of accommodation with a large cellar, an entrance hall, drawing room, sitting room, billiard room and kitchen/breakfast room on the ground floor

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 include a walled garden and several ponds. There is also a stone terrace with stunning 180-degree views across estate land

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.’

What’s the Domesday Guide? William the Conqueror’s ‘Nice Survey’ of England and Wales to work out how a lot he was owed in tax

The Domesday Book, pictured, is housed at the National Archives in Kew, London and is a record of the 'Great Survey' completed in 1086 by order of King William the Conqueror 

The Domesday Guide, pictured, is housed on the Nationwide Archives in Kew, London and is a document of the ‘Nice Survey’ accomplished in 1086 by order of King William the Conqueror 

The e-book is a manuscript document of the ‘Nice Survey’ of a lot of England and components of Wales accomplished in 1086 by order of King William the Conqueror.

The survey’s major goal was to find out what taxes had been owed in the course of the reign of King Edward the Confessor.

The assessors’ reckoning of a person’s holdings and their values, as recorded in Domesday Guide, couldn’t be appealed.

The title Domesday comes from Outdated English for Doomsday. The manuscript earned the fearful title as a result of its choices have been unalterable – drawing comparisons with the Final Judgement.

The e-book, written in Medieval Latin, is held at The Nationwide Archives at Kew in London.