Posted on 12/22/2017 4:06:44 PM PST by mairdie
The ancestral home of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge's family which was also used by Oliver Cromwell as he built his Civil War army has gone on the market for offers over £7m.
The Chanters House in Ottery St Mary, Devon, was owned by the Coleridge family from the late 18th century until 2006 and still houses the impressive Coleridge book collection in the grand 70ft library.
The stunning property - on the market with Strutt & Parker - comes with more than 21 acres and earns an income thanks to renewable energy sources which the current owners have installed.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Did they have a well or a faucet?
A stately pleasure dome...
A house that big could become like an albatross.
That’s really cool, but I can’t imagine living in it, not to mention the dead birds lying all around from splatting into all that glass.
And no bathroom.
Can I buy just the books? I can’t swing the rest...
It’s outside, ‘round the back ....
Having been in the military(Air Force)over there back in the late 80’s I would hate to see the utility bills for that house, I say that as the utilities back then were pretty high over there compared to the United States and that was like 30 years or so ago. I really hate to them now, I doubt if those solar panels even come close to paying half of the utility bills.
A cousin of mine had a house like that. Since she died they’re selling, but haven’t heard if it sold. I heard the upkeep costs were STAGGERING. Three separate dining rooms. (The money didn’t go down our branch of the family) First time I met her I realized she hadn’t given me the street number on the main drag in Newport. Turns out that’s because she was the whole block. VERY active Republican.
>>dead birds
YUCK! Never thought of that. My friend’s house was deep in CT woods, so they probably couldn’t get up to speed enough to splat.
Wasn’t it considered very British for the house to be really cold and the inhabitants freeze?
Yes a very impressive library. I don’t think I saw a paperback in the collection. (My library has plenty of them)
I grew up in a seventies contemporary with huge Pella windows on all four sides and remember well how dismayed my amateur birdwatcher parents were about that. The only thing that really worked was hanging black flying owl cutouts in front of them, which spoiled both the looks of the house and the view, it was at the foot of a mountain with a very nice view of large granite cliffs above. Even with that, come mating season the male Cardinals would beat their brains out against their reflection in those windows.
I have noticed in home like that there are no chairs or couches that you can just flop onto.
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