Apethorpe Hall

For sale - Offers invited

An exceptional and important English Country House dating from early Tudor, Elizabethan and Jacobean periods with powerful connections with the Royal Court and politics between the 15th and 17th Centuries – over 500 years of history, of which over 350 years was in one family ownership.

A Grade 1 Listed Building, the earliest part dating from the second half of the 15th Century, with subsequent additions or alterations representing domestic architecture of every period through to the 20th Century, but principally Jacobean – thought by many experts to be one of the best examples of that period. In all 15 recorded Royal visits.

Magnificent State Rooms including Great Chamber, Withdrawing Chamber, the King’s Room, the Duke’s Room and the Long Gallery all with original plaster ceilings and fireplaces recently restored. Unique Roof Walk. 15th century Great Hall with Minstrel’s Gallery.

About 48 other rooms on ground, first and second floors and an Orangery all in need of further restoration. Estimated total GIA about 51,000 sq ft (c.4739 sq m).

Period landscaped gardens, dating from various centuries, 3 bed Gardener’s Cottage, extensive walled kitchen gardens with greenhouses, part walled parkland with C18th Dovecote. Extensive 16th to19th Century Stable block (est. GIA 13,000 sq ft /1208 sq m) with 3 bed House, Granary and former groom accommodation.

In all about 45.3 acres (18.3 hectares)

For sale by private treaty as a whole.