Elizabethan country manor on sale for the first time in 400 years – for £625k

Unthank Hall
Think about residing right here (Image: Strutt&Parker/BNPS)

A rustic manor has gone available on the market – however what’s particular about this itemizing is that is first time it’s been available for purchase in 400 years.

The historic constructing goes for £625,000 and is Grade II listed.

Unthank Corridor is among the oldest L-shaped manor homes in northern England, sitting on a medieval website surrounded by excellent pure magnificence in County Durham.

The grand property is about in 1.8 acres of grounds and has two spacious stone-walled backyard paddocks, a flagstone yard and a proper backyard round the home.

You gained’t be wanting area right here.

Unthank Hall
Welcome (Image: Strutt&Parker/BNPS)

Unthank Hall
It’s an enormous property (Image: Strutt&Parker/BNPS)

Unthank Hall
A spacious front room (Image: Strutt&Parker/BNPS)

Unthank Hall
Backyard area (Image: Strutt&Parker/BNPS)

Data of the home date again to the twelfth century, and by the top of the sixteenth century it was a high-status Elizabethan mansion.

Even immediately, the property nonetheless retains fascinating interval options relationship again to the sixteenth, seventeenth and 18th centuries, akin to a Tudor-arched fire, mullioned home windows, flagstone flooring, uncovered beams and wall panelling.

It has been restored in locations, as after the 18th century the house was in decline.

The six-bedroom property was acquired in 1635 by the Westgarth household till the start of the nineteenth century. 

Unthank Hall
A chilled location for a house (Image: Strutt&Parker/BNPS)

Unthank Hall
You may dwell right here (Image: Strutt&Parker/BNPS)

Unthank Hall
Take a look at the spiral staircase (Image: Strutt&Parker/BNPS)

Unthank Hall
Rustic vibes (Image: Strutt&Parker/BNPS)

They then handed it right down to the Hildyard household, however varied different individuals lived within the area throughout that point as tenants.

The home has 4,450 sq ft of inside area unfold over three flooring and on the bottom flooring incorporates a kitchen and breakfast room, sitting room, drawing room, household room, utility room and retailer room.

The primary flooring has 4 double bedrooms and two bogs, and there’s an attic with two extra bedrooms.

The gorgeous house is on the outskirts of countryside village Stanhope, close to the River Put on.

Unthank Hall
There’s loads of room (Image: Strutt&Parker/BNPS)

Unthank Hall
Picturesque (Image: Strutt&Parker/BNPS)

Unthank Hall
What a view (Image: Strutt&Parker/BNPS)

Unthank Hall
Gorgeous (Image: Strutt&Parker/BNPS)

Jason Roberts, from property brokers Strutt & Parker, mentioned: ‘Unthank Corridor is a shocking constructing throughout the North of England with a wealthy and intensive historical past – providing the top of a rustic way of life on a smaller scale.

‘Uncovered beams and wall panelling are timeless reminders of the historical past constructed inside the home

‘It has all of the attraction and character you’d count on but in addition brings an thrilling alternative for the brand new house owners to make it their very own.

‘For the reason that pandemic, it's no secret that these types of nation houses have grown in attraction, providing that slower tempo of life whereas nonetheless being properly linked.

‘There's actually no higher place that gives all that than on this patch of lovely countryside in Nation Durham.’

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