Media pimped homes for sale - monitor thread

dopester

Daily Mail:
Hincheslea, Brockenhurst, Hampshire, SO42
Out of the ashes... Sandbanks developer shows his traditional side with £8m New Forest manor

By Duncan Farmer
Last updated at 11:55 AM on 19th April 2010

It is all the more surprising, then, to discover that the builder, and vendor, of the property is Tony Sinclair, a developer responsible for some of the audacious modernist mansions in the millionaire's playground of Sandbanks near Poole in Dorset.

When Sinclair bought the site near Brockenhurst in Hampshire for £2.5million in 2002, it was little more than a pile of embers.

The previous owner, impresario Phil McIntyre, responsible for West End hits such as We Will Rock You, had built a log cabin on the land which had burned down.

Spookily, the property before the log cabin was an 18th Century Georgian manor - from which the Sinclairs have taken the name for their house - which also burnt down in 1978 when Rachel Smith, now wife to Lib Dem Treasury spokesman and Mail on Sunday columnist Vince Cable, was living in it.

But today, a new house stands on the six-and-a-half-acre site - a magnificent modern country home covering 20,000sq ft and with fabulous views across the Forest.

Sinclair, 61, planned to live there with his wife Karen, 52, and their children Adam, 21, Guy, 18, and Bethany, 16, but with the children rarely at home it is too big for the couple and is now up for sale for £7.95million.


Refined: Tony Sinclair built Hinchelsea House in the New Forest

Smug-tastic or what.

Rightmove link 1 (John D Wood & Co): Guide Price £7,950,000
Rightmove link 2 (Lloyds Property Group): Guide Price £7,950,000
PB Main Info: (from oldest listing of above):
Found by PB: 13 November 2009. Price found: Guide Price £7,950,000
Update 05th September 2010: New Rightmove link (Knight Frank): Guide Price £7,250,000
Update 24th October 2010: (PB change): 23 October 2010: Price changed: from 'Guide Price £7,250,000' to 'Guide Price £6,950,000'

dopester

Daily Mail:
Wissett, Nr Halesworth, Suffolk
Two vintage homes in the country...with all the wine you could drink

By Duncan Farmer
Last updated at 3:36 PM on 13th April 2010
Wissett, Nr Halesworth, Suffolk, IP10 0JJ

Among the industry's pioneers in Britain were Janet and Jonathan Craft, who planted eight acres of vines 24 years ago at their delightful 16th Century farmhouse in the Suffolk village of Wissett and have been producing winning wines ever since.

However, the couple are now retiring and have put the six-bedroom house, the vineyard and a four-bedroom holiday cottage that brings in £25,000 a year up for sale.

Rightmove link (Savills): Offers in Region of £1,450,000

PB Main Info:
Found by PB: 05 February 2010. Price found: Offers in Region of £1,450,000

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Tarrington Court is a timber framed Herefordshire house with five acres and an impressive collection of outbuildings, where Keith and Catherine Jago make 800 bottles a year, purely for their own pleasure.

They are selling up to concentrate on their oil business in London. 'Ours is a lovely fresh white wine, not too sweet and surprisingly drinkable,' says Catherine, 54, who has designed three amateur gardens at Chelsea.


Enchanting: Tarrington Court in Herefordshire

'We weren't looking for a vineyard – it just came with the house, along with a cider orchard – but I'm a keen gardener and I love pruning the vines which is done four times a year to ensure all the plant's energy goes into the grapes.'

For Catherine and Keith, 62, the wine – and their prize-winning cider – is purely a hobby. 'We always harvest on a Sunday and invite about 40 or 50 friends over to help pick them,' says Catherine.

Rightmove link 1: (Savills): Guide Price £1,850,000
Rightmove link 2: (Hayes): Guide Price £1,850,000

PB Main Info: (from oldest listing of above)
Found by PB: 18 March 2010. Price found: Guide Price £1,850,000

Update 25th November 2010: Seems to have sold. Awaiting any new entry info available at houseprices.co.uk/other. In the meantime, its previous form.
Sales Date: 16/03/2006 Price: £1,325,000 Address Tarrington Court, Tarrington, Hereford, Herefordshire, HR1 4EX
Sales Date: 17/08/2001. Price: £815,000 Address: Tarrington Court, Tarrington, Hereford, Herefordshire, HR1 4EX

dopester

Daily Mail:

Beverly Hills, Berkshire: Locals hate this £10m banana-shaped mansion - but its owner is keen to do it all again

By Lin Jenkins
Last updated at 11:23 AM on 19th April 2010

Highwood is the brainchild of Darryl Boulton, who bought the 23-acre plot in 2003 for £1.3million, intending to build a house for his family, although work only started in 2008.

Darryl had set out with the intention of building a house worth about £14 million, although since the recession and his desire to move on has got the best of him, he has slashed the price by £4million. Having the best plot in Berkshire made it worth going for broke, he says.

KEY FACTS
* Price: £10 million
* Facilities: Indoor pool, spa, cinema, underground garaging
* Inside: Six en suite bedrooms, five reception rooms
* Outside: 23 acres, including garage block, terrace, garden and woodland

Rightmove link (Strutt & Parker): Guide Price £9,000,000

PB Main Info: (from oldest listing of above)
15 April 2010: Price changed: from 'Guide Price £10,000,000' to 'Guide Price £9,000,000'
14 April 2010: Price changed: from 'Guide Price £12,000,000' to 'Guide Price £10,000,000'
31 October 2009: Price changed: from 'POA' to 'Guide Price £12,000,000'
Found by PB: 18 September 2009. Price found: POA

Update: Other article from The Times (January 30, 2010)

>So when computerised details arrived from Strutt & Parker of a new 12,000 sq ft house on the site going on sale at £12 million, I steeled myself to go and look.

>Boulton is in two minds about putting the house on the market. “My family would all like to move in, but it’s on the edge of what I can afford. I would probably have to go back to work.”

kennyboy66_2

Keep up the good work Dopester. I love this thread.

So much money and so little taste.

lostinrates

kennyboy66 wrote: »

Keep up the good work Dopester. I love this thread.

So much money and so little taste.

I love this thread too.

what worries me is how these designs get planning and my little request doesn't....maybe I should be applying for a chavtastic wonder, a banana shaped mansion or similar?

The house I'd love in the new forest is way cheaper than this latest one, but its much less..er.....''classy, like, innit''

abaxas

lostinrates wrote: »

I love this thread too.

what worries me is how these designs get planning and my little request doesn't....maybe I should be applying for a chavtastic wonder, a banana shaped mansion or similar?

The house I'd love in the new forest is way cheaper than this latest one, but its much less..er.....''classy, like, innit''

Just offer 10k to the local school, problem solved.

lostinrates

That banana shaped one...where do they store a lawn mower for the two raised lawns? surely they can't drag one up everytime?

iB1

lostinrates wrote: »

That banana shaped one...where do they store a lawn mower for the two raised lawns? surely they can't drag one up everytime?

They probably have 3 lawnmowers - one for each patch!

lostinrates

iB1 wrote: »

They probably have 3 lawnmowers - one for each patch!

yes, but where would they keep them? A shed would hardly fit in with the design. And its stripey, so they can't intend for it to be one of those solar robot ones.

Also, can you imagine the best a dog would make of the upper lawns in the rain....a pain, because otherwise would be lovely to have that all open in a summer shower when the wind wasn't against that side of the house....

fc123

lostinrates wrote: »

I love this thread too.

me too

Can I add this one?

It was built over a period of four years by William Russell, an award-winning architect and former business partner of the “starchitect” David Adjaye. By the time it was finished, however, Russell and his wife had two young children, and found that the almost vertical stairs, endless sharp edges and dizzying mezzanine galleries defied child-proofing.
Enter Laden, 44, who snapped it up for £1.2m two years ago — and is now hoping to sell for £2.2m. “I had seen it going up and I found it a fascinating process to watch,” he says. “When I heard it was for sale, I had a look, and I basically had to have it.

He added an extension at the cost of 400k.

Experts adore the uncompromising glass, steel and concrete building, which squats at the north end of Brick Lane, in Shoreditch, the cutting edge of the East End, but a casual passer-by could be forgiven for assuming it is a 1970s office block ripe for demolition.

This is architectural Marmite — you either love it or hate it.

From the outside, it is certainly a forbidding proposition, its concrete entrance guarded by metal gates. Once you’re inside, though, it unfolds like a piece of structural origami — far lighter, more dramatic and quirkier than the dour facade might suggest

I think it's been on for 3 months so far?
What do you think? Will it get 2million?