Fancy living in a house like this? Of course you do. Well, here’s your chance – elite estate agent Knight Frank is selling a plot of land, with planning permission to build this fine Palladian style home, for £3.25 million.
The architects’ plans are all drawn up; you’ll just have to get down to one of Marlborough’s building supply yards and stock up on bricks, cement, and polished marble – which, plus the labour, will bring the build cost to between £2 and £3 million.
And if you can’t afford the entire bill in one go, don’t fret – you should be able to get the plot, with a deposit of £325,000, for a monthly mortgage repayment of £15,683 over 25 years. Remember, you’ll still need to budget for the house though.
Your 10,000 square foot house will have nine bedrooms, 10 bathrooms, and eight reception rooms, tennis courts, and a swimming pool, and will be set in 53 acres of parkland setting, just a mile outside Marlborough and yards from the pier gate entrance to the Grand Avenue through the Savernake Forest.
And by building a Palladian house, you’ll be in good company. The property is just under four miles from the circa 1820 Palladian-style Grade I listed Tottenham House, ancestral seat of the Earl of Cardigan, but recently sold to property developer Jamie Riblat. And in January this year billionaire H&M owner Stefan Persson was given permission to a nine-bedroom Palladian-style house in 780 acres near Ramsbury.
The estate agent’s particulars say: “The house will be set at the head of a sweeping drive, surrounded by mature parkland trees, with a gravel turning circle in front of the house and its impressive colonnade entrance, designed for a car to drive through.
“The design can be built without the wings depending on the size the buyer is looking for and can also incorporate either an indoor or outdoor swimming pool. Permission has also been granted for an astro tennis court and three bay garage.
“Already in situ is a three bedroom guest house, two further staff flats, and a barn with stabling.”
Seymour Place replaces Furze Coppice, an early 18th century hunting lodge which was demolished in 2008 following unsuccessful attempts to sell the property.
At 6,500 square feet, the house was roughly half the size of the proposed replacement, and was on the market for £2.25 million before being withdrawn.
Estate agents then attempted to sell the plot with plans for a large contemporary style house, which failed to find a buyer, before instructing Fowler Architecture and Planning in Pewsey to design a house in a classical design – the one now on the market.
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