A stunning Cheshire mansion is the most expensive property for sale in the North right now - and after months on the market, it still hasn't found a buyer.
Adlington Hall, which was once owned by King Henry III, comes with 1,922 acres of land and 27 other residential properties. The grand hall, near Macclesfield, went up for sale for the first time in 700 years last October, but a lack of interest has since seen the asking priced slashed by £4 million in a bid to find a buyer.
In recent years it has hosted weddings, corporate events, awards ceremonies, photoshoots and is a popular filming location, with several Sherlock Holmes episodes having been filmed there.
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Currently listed for £26 million, the estate boasts 10 period mews houses, a hunting lodge, a garden house, nine other cottages, six farms, 208 acres of woodland and a walled garden, Cheshire Live reports.
Within its walls, which clash with each other in black-and-white Tudor or Georgian styles depending on the wing of the house, can be found opulent mahogany drawing rooms draped in silk, dining rooms with red velvet chairs and antique portraits that watch on from the walls, and a hall with a pipe organ that stretches up to a vaulted ceiling.
Adlington Hall can be traced back to Saxon times when the house was owned by Norman Earls for seven generations until 1221, when it passed to the Crown. Henry III then passed the manor onto Hugh de Corona and, after the marriage of one of his granddaughters to John de Legh of Booth, Adlington Hall became the ancestral home of the Legh family.
Current owner Camilla Legh is set to break with over 700 years of her family's affiliation with the estate should it sell. It is estimated that the estate makes around £430,000 per year, mainly from agricultural and residential lets.
Mark Wiggin, Director of Mark Wiggin Estate Agents, spoke to CheshireLive when the extraordinary property first went on the market. He said: "There have been very expensive houses which have sold for lots of money, but this has obviously got more land, more houses. We don't think there has been anything of this size and stature for a considerable period of time.
"I can't put a date on it, but certainly not in recent history. That's why we keep using the word historic.
"It is historic in a lot of ways, there is a lot of history to the property. The family have been there so long, and it is an amazing Grade I property – but also the fact that we think we're making a bit of history, in that there hasn't been anything like this on the market in this part of the world."
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