The grand Georgian manor that was as soon as owned by novelist Evelyn Waugh has gone in the marketplace for £5million – after property brokers took £500,000 off the asking worth.
The writer of Vile Our bodies, Brideshead Revisited and Sword of Honour purchased Combe Florey Home in Taunton, Somerset, in 1956 and his household lived there till 2008.
Within the Waughs’ time there, the home was typically crammed with glamorous and intelligent company like poet John Betjeman, actors Peter Prepare dinner and Alec Guinness, and writers Salman Rushdie and Muriel Spark.
The gorgeous 12-bedroom property is a Grade II listed 18th century manor home designed with purple ashlar sandstone within the model of famend architect James Gibbs and is positioned close to the Quantock Hills and Exmoor Nationwide Park, areas of excellent pure magnificence.
Combe Florey Home (pictured), a grand Georgian manor the place author Evelyn Waugh lived and died is now in the marketplace for £5million – after property brokers dropped the asking worth by £500,000
The gorgeous 12-bedroom property, positioned in Taunton, Somerset, is a Grade II listed 18th century manor home designed with purple ashlar sandstone within the model of famend architect James Gibbs and options a big round pond kinds a centrepiece with an ornate three tier fountain
Fantastic ceiling mouldings, panelled doorways, panelling, chimneypieces and unique stone and wood flooring have all been conserved and, the place applicable, restored within the beautiful 18th century property
A second visitor bed room which contains an pleasing roll high tub and cloakroom with W.C inside it. As well as, there are two additional bedrooms and an additional rest room and a bathe room
The drawing room, library and eating room type a trio of high-quality reception rooms that are complimented by the casual sitting room, household room, research and kitchen/breakfast room (with direct entry to the household room and the boot room)
The primary flooring gives two bed room suites on the entrance of the home. The principal suite overlooks the grounds and includes a bed room, ensuite rest room and two dressing rooms. The visitor suite overlooks backyard and parkland and gives a bed room and ensuite rest room
Combe Florey Home options seven spacious loos, a swimming pool, tennis court docket, a celebration barn and 34.56 acres of land.
The sale additionally features a three-bedroom cottage inside the grounds often known as The Keepers Cottage and it’s at the moment in the marketplace with Strutt & Parker for £5 million.
English novelist Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966)
The property was initially put up on the market final yr in April for £5.5million however property brokers have since dropped the asking worth.
A manor home has been on the location for a lot of centuries, however the earlier constructing was destroyed within the Civil Conflict, and the current seventeenth century home was extensively remodelled by William Frauncies in 1730.
The property was offered to the Perring household in 1799 and offered once more in 1896, earlier than being bought by the author Evelyn Waugh as his household residence in 1956.
Waugh died ten years later, however his household lived right here till 2008 when the current homeowners purchased Combe Florey Home.
The property measures just below 22,000 sq. foot and roughly 35 acres of backyard and grounds.
Waugh purchased the home for £7,500, three-quarters of his annual earnings on the time, and lived there for ten years earlier than he died of coronary heart failure aged 62.
His son Auberon, a author and journalist, then purchased the home off his mom.
It’s thought there was an Elizabethan home on the land which was pulled down after the Civil Conflict and this property was constructed to switch it.
The kitchen has two electrical ovens, a 4 ring electrical hob, two dishwashers and a fridge. There are additionally two cloakrooms. There’s below flooring heating all through
The Keepers Cottage, garages, workshops and gasoline shops replicate the looks of a conventional vary of ancillary nation home buildings to incorporate a coach home, shops and kennels round a central courtyard enclosed by automated carriage gates and flanking partitions
The addition of a giant orangery on the bottom flooring gives a central hub to the home and a connection between the formal reception rooms and the casual household rooms
Every bed room is spacious and shiny – overlooking the attractive location close to the Quantock Hills and Exmoor Nationwide Park, areas of excellent pure magnificence
An extended non-public drive climbs by means of established parkland, passing between the home and the lake and results in a gravel forecourt in entrance of the home
It’s believed an earlier Elizabethan home was located nearer to the village church and was pulled down after the Civil Conflict. It’s understood to have then been changed by a brand new home at the moment web site. The seventeenth Century home was extensively remodelled by William Frauncies in 1730
The home was extensively remodelled by William Frauncies in 1730 and has a number of 18th century options just like the newel staircase within the entrance corridor.
There are additionally high-quality ceiling mouldings, panelled doorways, chimney-pieces and unique stone and wood flooring all through.
It has greater than 16,000 sq ft of residing house organized over 4 flooring with wine cellars and storage within the basement, kitchen/breakfast room, household room, library, research, drawing room, eating room, sitting room, orangery, 12 bedrooms and 7 loos.
Adjoining to the pool is the pool room with a corridor, bathe room with a WC and a cloakroom. There’s additionally a altering room and a plant room
As a complete Combe Florey Home extends to 34.56 acres (13.98 ha) with undulating parkland and pasture land forming nearly all of the holding. The parkland is residence to magnificent bushes and two areas of established copse
The property has a spacious corridor and the rooms have vaulted ceilings and stone flooring. It’s organized as: boiler room, giant laundry/utility room, two wine cellars and two retailer rooms
Keepers Cottage is located to the north of the home, adjoining to the coach home and garaging. The lodging includes a corridor, sitting room, kitchen and cloakroom on the bottom flooring, and three bedrooms and a rest room on the primary flooring.
Combe Florey is a small picturesque village located 6 miles (9.7 km) northwest of Taunton and near the Quantock Hills and the West Somerset Railway. The village has the Farmers Arms public home, a village corridor and the Grade I listed church of St Peter and St Paul (thirteenth century origins)
An extra backyard space of extensive open garden borders each the tennis court docket and the swimming pool. The heated swimming pool is edged by a large flagstone terrace and is positioned in entrance of the pool room and the Summer time Home/Get together Barn.
There’s additionally a three-bedroom cottage, workshops and a coachhouse, in addition to the get together barn and pool home.
The grounds embody a pond and fountain, a courtyard, three interconnecting walled gardens and a few parkland and pasture.
Oliver Custance Baker, from property brokers Strutt & Parker, informed MailOnline: ‘It truly is a fantastic property. It has already had been seen by a number of potential consumers.’
You’ll be able to view the itemizing for the property right here.