The largest estate in the UK – Wentworth Woodhouse from the South Yorkshire county – will be sold for £7 million in the spring of 2015. The owners got tired of its renovation, informs the ee24.com with reference to the Daily Mail. The further palace restoration will require £42 million in next 15 years.
One of the great political estates associated with the Whigs. There once lived Charles Watson-Wentworth, the second Marquis of Rockingham and the double-British Prime Minister, as well as the fourth Earl Fitzwilliam, who became a prototype of Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy in Jane Austen's novel "Pride and Prejudice".
Clifford Newbold, the current owner of the Wentworth Woodhouse palace. Photo: in luxurious reception room
The current palace’s owner – London architect called Clifford Newbold – has spent past 15 years and about £5 million of the family budget repairing this house. In 1999, he paid £1.5 million for tottering manor. Today he is 90 years old, so the family decided to put the building up for sale.
Ideal proportions of marble living room – in the best traditions of English palladian architecture. There once played badminton
Residential area of Wentworth Woodhouse is about 23,000 square meters. Here are located 365 rooms – one room for each day of the year. Mansion’s area is two times more than Buckingham Palace. The building also holds another record: its eastern facade is the longest among country houses in Europe – 180 meters.
Wentworth Woodhouse estate is located in Rotherham, South Yorkshire county
Video: BBC on Wentworth Woodhouse