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dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts) Fri Jul 19, 2013, 04:42 AM Jul 2013

Government puts 329-bedroom mansion on sale for £25 million

A historic mansion boasting a lake, sports complex, training centre and a total of 329 bedrooms has been put on the market by the Home Office for £25 million.

Bramshill House, in Hampshire, is one of the country's most significant Jacobean properties.

The Grade I listed main property boasts a staggering 43,000 sq/ft of accommodation, putting it among the largest homes in the UK.

The mansion, which was built between 1605 and 1615, has 15 bedrooms, a long gallery, chapel, lounges, a mezzanine and a number of "magnificent state rooms" which have now been converted into banqueting halls.

http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/government-puts-329-bedroom-mansion-on-sale-160212846.html

I can't work out what the figure of "329 bedrooms" refers to ?

Anyone here with sufficient readies the agents are Knight Frank.

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Government puts 329-bedroom mansion on sale for £25 million (Original Post) dipsydoodle Jul 2013 OP

329 mice holes perheps? darkangel218 Jul 2013 #1

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I don't know, but for $37 million dollars it sounds good to me davidpdx Jul 2013 #3

Bramshill's not far from where I grew up. oldironside Jul 2013 #4

£5 million a year running cost might be a matter of how its used. dipsydoodle Jul 2013 #5

It's appears to be the most haunted house in England. Arkansas Granny Jul 2013 #6

$76K per bedroom, that is not too bad liberal N proud Jul 2013 #7

15 in the main house SwissTony Jul 2013 #8

The bedrooms are mainly in separate buildings muriel_volestrangler Jul 2013 #9

darkangel218

(13,985 posts)

1. 329 mice holes perheps?

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Fri Jul 19, 2013, 05:09 AM

Jul 2013

Bedrooms for lil miceys

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davidpdx

(22,000 posts)

3. I don't know, but for $37 million dollars it sounds good to me

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Fri Jul 19, 2013, 05:58 AM

Jul 2013

oldironside

(1,248 posts)

4. Bramshill's not far from where I grew up.

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Fri Jul 19, 2013, 06:24 AM

Jul 2013

From Wikipedia

Bramshill is reputedly one of the most haunted houses in England, with no fewer than 14 ghosts. These include a Grey Lady, a Green Man, and a White Lady who supposedly hid in a wooden chest during a game of hide and seek on her wedding night at Christmas time and was only found 50 years later, still wearing her wedding dress and with a sprig of mistletoe in her hand. The chest is on display in the entrance hall. She is sometimes identified as John Cope's daughter, Anne, who married Hugh Bethell of Yorkshire. An alternative theory is that she was Genevre Orsini, who was married in 1727, and that her ghost came to Bramshill from Italy together with the chest.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bramshill_House

dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts)

5. £5 million a year running cost might be a matter of how its used.

Reply to oldironside (Reply #4)

Fri Jul 19, 2013, 06:33 AM

Jul 2013

I figured if I won the Euro Lottery I'd buy it and employ 50 tradesmen pals to keep an eye on maintenance, dig a lake out when they were not otherwise busy and fill it with carp for all us to fish in and build a house to store the beer..

Arkansas Granny

(31,530 posts)

6. It's appears to be the most haunted house in England.

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Fri Jul 19, 2013, 06:40 AM

Jul 2013

http://www.tribuneindia.com/2000/20000116/spectrum/main11.htm

liberal N proud

(60,344 posts)

7. $76K per bedroom, that is not too bad

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Fri Jul 19, 2013, 08:02 AM

Jul 2013

Modern 3 bedroom houses cost upward of $400K which works out to $133K per bedroom.

The place is a bargain.

SwissTony

(2,560 posts)

8. 15 in the main house

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Fri Jul 19, 2013, 01:04 PM

Jul 2013

"There are 58 staff houses taking the total bedrooms on the entire estate to a staggering 329".

muriel_volestrangler

(101,361 posts)

9. The bedrooms are mainly in separate buildings

Reply to dipsydoodle (Original post)

Fri Jul 19, 2013, 01:07 PM

Jul 2013

Away from the Jacobean mansion, there are a number of purpose built buildings which include two bars, two restaurants, a sports hall and 231 en-suite bedrooms.

There are 58 staff houses taking the total bedrooms on the entire estate to a staggering 329.

With over 260 acres, it doesn't seem that expensive.

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