The Adlington Hall Estate in Cheshire has been given a £30m asking price after being put up for sale for the first time in its 700-year history.
The estate is the ancestral home of the Legh family and includes Adlington Hall, six farms, 21 residential properties, an events space, a village hall and a total of 1,922 acres.
The estate is offered for sale by joint agents Savills and Mark Wiggin Estate Agency with a guide price of £30m for the whole. It is also available in up to 25 lots.
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The origins of Adlington Hall can be traced back to Saxon times while the house was held by Norman Earls for seven generations until 1221 when it passed to the Crown.
Henry III passed the manor to Hugh de Corona, and on the marriage of one of his granddaughters to John de Legh of Booth, Adlington Hall became the ancestral home of the Legh family.
Adlington Hall is a grade I-listed house with a distinctive Tudor façade to the east and a Georgian front to the south. Records show the Hall was once surrounded by a moat.
The Great Hall on the north side was added between 1480 and 1505 and later additions to the house are evident. After two sieges during the Civil War and years of neglect, some restoration work took place, but the next era of significant change began in 1739 when Charles Legh inherited the house.
During his tenure it was transformed from a medium-sized Tudor house into a large Georgian Manor house. The next large scale structural changes occurred in 1928 when much of the west wing side of the quadrangle was replaced.
There are a further 27 residential properties spread across the estate. Six form part of farm tenancies and others include period mews houses, lodges and semi-detached cottages. The portfolio is let on a range of occupancies.
The agricultural land is split between pasture and arable with cropping typically cereals and maize. A total of 1,229 acres are let on six separate agricultural tenancy agreements, the farms include principal farmhouses along with both traditional and modern farm buildings. A further 160 acres are in hand which are predominantly parkland around the Hall. There are 208 acres of mixed woodland across the estate.
Most of The Adlington Hall Estate's £430,000 per annum income is from the residential, commercial, and agricultural rent rolls which is supplemented by some in hand and trading income from events, public openings and other ad hoc arrangements.
Hunting Lodge is an event space which has been used for a variety of events including weddings.
Rhydian Scurlock-Jones, director at Savills in Telford, said: "The Adlington Hall Estate has a rich and varied history and the estate has evolved over time.
"Today, many traditional elements that are synonymous with an estate of this importance are complemented by diverse income sources, the most recent being its commitment to providing habitat enhancements for local development."
Mark Wiggin of joint agents Mark Wiggin Estate Agents, added: "It is not often you can say a house/estate has not been for sale for over 700 years. That in itself shows how remarkable Adlington is. We all hope that we can find somebody who appreciates the history and the opportunities the estate has and continues to offer."
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