A 540-acre estate near Hadrian’s Wall in the north-east of England has reached the market with offers of more than $6.3 million. The Blenkinsopp Estate is located in Northumberland, just below the Scottish border and has been in the same circle of family members for 145 years.
The vast rural heritage is set in a valley 3.2 km from the town of Haltwhistle and includes a 19th-century park, forests and a stone manor house. Hadrian’s Wall, the UNESCO-listed Roman fortification, is close to its northern border.
According to Knight Frank’s James Denne sales agent, Blenkinsopp, which offers surprising views of the moor and sporting opportunities to the south, “is a prominent domain in Northumberland… Surrounded by populated landscapes with a rugged feeling, it offers a genuine feeling of isolation ».
Denne says the property, which went on sale last week, is attracting interest from the UK and continental Europe. “International buyers are attracted by the romance of owning assets from an English country and the low pound opposed to the euro helps,” he says.
The estate is located near the Anglo-Scottish border rich in folklore and history, surrounded by hills and moors. It once housed a tower of coats that was first discussed in 1663 as the home of John Blenkinsopp and component of the states of the circle of relatives of Blenkinsopp whose history dates back to the Norman era. The Peel Towers are fortified houses that were built to save the invaders known as Border Reivers who ruled the domain from the 13th to the 17th century.
Blenkinsopp Hall is at its center and was built in the early 180s by Colonel John Blenkinsopp Coulson on the site of an ancient space known as Dryburnhaugh. In 1875 it was bought through Edward Joicey and transmitted from generation to generation to its current owners, Fiona Lees-Millais (single Joicey) and his wife Patrick.
The 14,000-square-foot, 10-room Blenkinsopp Hall has a south-facing elevated look, overlooking the northumbria park and countryside, as well as the stone facades and upcoming additions, adding a terrace. Inside, it has a sublime staircase, two giant living rooms, giant windows, carpentry and an independent two bedroom apartment.
It is accessed via a long tree-covered entrance road, has extensive meadows, which stand out for their daffodils, azaleas, rhododendrons and herbaceous edges, and are covered with stone railings, leading to an old park, tennis court and lake. houses and cottages, a 1nine03 indexed stable, a walled lawn and a farm.
The various properties, between Carlisle (14 miles) and Newcastle (36 miles), include 212 acres of pasture, approximately 218 acres of woods, 85 acres of hills and a 1578-meter stretch of the Tipalt River, which crosses the land.
Blenkinsopp has the prospect of raising farm animals and horses and provides opportunities, adding deer hunting, fashion pheasant expansion and trout fishing at the Tipalt. It also has another 540 acres of rights to adjacent land, adding salmon and trout fishing on the Tipalt River.
Approximately 83 acres of pasture are leased to neighbors and another 98 acres are part of the Darlees Commercial Farm (which ends in 2023), which is suitable for reforestation, a theme for the approval of plans.
The assets are on sale with Knight Frank.
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