Coastal house where Jane Austen stayed goes on the market for £1.5million

Jane Austen stayed within the property when it was a boarding home (Image: Stags/BNPS)

In case you’re an aspiring author, you’ve probably dreamed of getting your very personal writerly retreat to pen your novels, away from the excitement of the town and surrounded by nature.

Sea Tree Home in Lyme Regis, Dorset, is that dream come true – and it has a historical past that want-to-be writers will love.

That historical past: Jane Austen stayed within the Grade II listed property in 1804, throughout its time as a boarding home, and its thought the enduring views over Cobb could have impressed Persuasion.

Now, the home is up on the market, with an asking value of £1.5million.

Sea Tree Home is at present organized as three residences, with the homeowners dwelling within the prime one and utilizing the decrease two as vacation lettings.

The property used to function a gentleman’s residence within the mid-1800s, earlier than being become a boarding home.

It’s thought that the views impressed Austen’s Persuasion (Image: Stags/BNPS)

The property is true on the Jurassic Coast, providing sights of Cobb (Image: Stags/BNPS)

It’s now up on the market for £1.5million (Image: Stags/BNPS)

In 1998, the present homeowners purchased it, and carried out an intensive renovation to make it snazzy sufficient for a contemporary keep.

It nonetheless has a bunch of character options, although, together with giant bay home windows, excessive ceilings, panelled doorways, ornate cornices and authentic fireplaces.

There’s 2,680 foot of lodging, with the 2 vacation lets made up of a sitting/eating room with a bay window, a kitchen, and a bed room with an en suite bathe room, and the highest residence unfold over two flooring, with a kitchen, bed room, and loo on one and an open-plan principal bed room (with a spa tub, dressing room, and a balcony), on prime.

There’s out of doors house; a big rear backyard with a conservatory and a shed, and a close-by parking house.

The interiors are cut up into three residences (Image: Stags/BNPS)

You could possibly herald some revenue by letting out the residences as vacation stays (Image: Stags/BNPS)

Or maybe it may very well be a writers’ retreat? (Image: Stags/BNPS)

And the situation is fairly particular – the home sits within the city centre, however in a quiet and peaceable tucked away place, with views of the ocean entrance.

Martin Bowen-Ashwin, from property brokers Stags, mentioned: ‘Lyme Regis is a stupendous Regency city on the Jurassic Coast. It’s like a movie set with all the beautiful outdated interval buildings.

‘Lyme Regis additionally well-known for the Cobb and Sea Tree Home overlooks that.

‘This can be a actual way of life alternative to like in an exquisite home in a surprising location and generate a very good revenue for your self too.’