1,000-year-old English manor lists for $13.5M

Discuss purchasing an actual piece of historical past.

This house is reputed to be the England’s oldest frequently inhabited space, consistent with Mansion International. And mixing previous with new, the traditional, palatial assets has each an indoor pool and a moat. 

Welcome to Nice Tangley Manor in Surrey, an Eleventh-century property now in the marketplace for $13.5 million. The record — which is collectively held by means of Strutt & Parker and Savills — provides a variety of different fashionable facilities (equivalent to electrical automotive charging issues and a helicopter hangar) combined with ancient components (King George V and Queen Mary signed the eating room’s window with a diamond ring). 

“Now not many houses can lay declare to as soon as being a Twelfth century Royal looking resort, having timbers seemingly from the Spanish Armada, a William Morris design named after it that featured in Queen Victoria’s Windsor residences and renovations by means of one of the crucial Britain’s maximum iconic Arts & Crafts architects,” commented Phillipa Dalby Welsh of the Savills Nation Division in press fabrics won by means of The Submit. “This can be a space this is testomony to how executed appropriately, properties can alternate and develop through the years to fit the desires in their homeowners, but now not detract from its architectural integrity and improbable historical past.”

The property’s foundations date to the 12 months 1016, and it hasn’t ever been with out an occupant within the 1,006 years since. All through that point, a couple of British monarchs have turn into related to the accommodation, which has additionally been expanded upon and furnished by means of more than a few respected architects. Following a Twelfth-century hearth, a portion of the house used to be rebuilt as a medieval corridor space; the ones Spanish Armada timbers had been added when a former occupant contributed to the Crown all over a struggle, and were given them in go back as a present. 

Along with royals, Virginia Woolf could also be identified to have visited the house, in conjunction with her father and sister, Vanessa Bell — and Gladys Vanderbilt is reported to have given beginning to her 2nd kid whilst residing at Tangley in 1913. 

The manor used to be lengthy divided into two wings, however the newest homeowners merged them, the use of the previous Nice Tangley Manor Wing as their number one place of dwelling and the Nice Tangley Manor West wing as a holiday condo. The principle wing boasts a drawing room, a eating room, a 40-foot indoor heated pool, a sauna, an place of job, 5 bedrooms, two dressing rooms and 3 bogs. The West wing has a non-public front, 3 reception spaces, a kitchen, a find out about, 5 bedrooms and 3 bogs. 

“The home, even if spectacular in stature and measurement, is welcoming, reassuring and fascinating,” commented Strutt & Parker’s nation division head, Oliver Custance Baker. “For someplace that celebrated its millennium in 2016 it’s very particular to be a part of the method this is discovering the following custodian of such the most important piece of this nation’s heritage.”