Homes of the Week: The £12 million Shakenhurst

Friday 25th June 2010, 9:30AM BST.

The magnificent Georgian-style Shakenhurst, which is for sale at £12 million

It has thirteen bedrooms, seven bathrooms and is set in 1,300 acres of rolling countryside — and it could all be yours for just £12 million.

This stunning Georgian-style home is one of the most exclusive addresses in the West Midlands and remarkably it has gone on the market for the first time in its 924-year history.

The Grade II-listed Shakenhurst, near Kidderminster, also boasts all the features of a traditional English country estate, such as shooting and fishing facilities, six farms and 12 houses and cottages. It dates all the way back to 1086.

It is being sold through joint agents Balfours and Savills.

Shakenhurst Estate, in Cleobury Mortimer, was held by the Meysey family since John de Meysey was granted the estate by Edward III in 1349.

In the early 20th century it left the Meysey family for about half a century.

Trustees

It was again inherited by a direct descendant of the Meyseys in 1961. The vendors selling the estate now are trustees of descendants of the Meysey family.

Visitors to the property enter through a large reception hall. Large windows send light flooding into the home’s impressive drawing room which has a carved painted chimney while the dining room has space for a 10-seater table.

Also downstairs is a morning room, a library, day-to-day service rooms, a kitchen, a boot room, a pantry, game larder and scullery.

The main hall has a 17th century oak dog-leg staircase.

There are seven bedrooms and five bathrooms and a sitting room, while six more bedrooms and two more bathrooms are on the second floor.

The garden is as breathtaking as the house. Mature copper beach, oak, yew and mulberry trees line the estate and there are also greenhouses, a coach house, stables and garages.


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    Rob

    Il have a look down the back of the sofa for the cash wont be a mo`

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