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Strutt & Parker is selling four estates and farms across the UK with a collective asking price of nearly £70m. Jewel in the crown is Kiddington Hall in Oxfordshire, at £42 million the most expensive estate to come to the market for five years.
Kiddington includes 2,000 acres of Oxfordshire countryside. As well as the Grade II-listed hall itself, the purchaser will acquire the village of Nether Kiddington, complete with kindergarten. Also included in the sale are 18 tenanted houses. Rental income is £437,000 a year. It is owned by the Hon Maurice Robson, 65. He inherited it on his father’s death in 1982. He is reluctantly selling the estate to raise money to fund a divorce settlement. Kiddington is the most expensive country house to come to the open market since the Easton Neston estate in Northamptonshire went on sale for £50m in 2004. After failing to attract a buyer at the asking price, that property was eventually split up and sold off separately in 2005. Strutt & Parker is joint with Adkin Rural & Commercial on this sale. Strutts is sole agent for an agricultural estate near the village of Much Hadham in Hertfordshire, which it is guiding at £17m. Moor Place includes 600 acres of let farmland, a 14-bedroom house, a four-bedroom dower house and two self-contained flats. There are three sets of farm buildings set away from the main house, with 2500t of grain storage on floors and in bins. Chesterton Humberts joins Strutts as joint agent for the Irby Estate in north Lincolnshire. The 1,283 acres was first marketed in summer 2008. It has now brought 833 of its arable land back in-hand and is available for £7m as a whole. The remaining 450 acres are let on an Agricultural Holdings Act tenancy. The sale includes a property in Irby village. And in Scotland, Strutt & Parker is selling the Castleton Estate, near Lochgilphead, which includes this nine-bedroom mansion, two islands and four cottages. It is asking £3m. It is currently owned by commercial investor Roger Brock and his wife, Rebecca. |
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