Have you always wanted to live in a straggle English estate ? This could be your golden Clarence Day .
The owners of Dancers Hill House have launch a competition towinthis luxury mansion , which was progress circa 1760 and has four acres of earth include a lake carry with Pisces the Fishes . There ’s an ingress fee of £ 13.50 ( less than $ 17 ) , but view the prop is worth tight to $ 7 million , it ’s a pretty good deal . you’re able to also inscribe more than once if you want to up your betting odds .
It begin good : According to a press release , the North London house was the " backdrop " of Masterpiece ’s 1999 adaptation of Charles Dickens’sGreat Expectations , which star Ioan Gruffudd , Charlotte Rampling , and Justine Waddell .
The estate has a rich history . Around 1500 , the land originally housed a manor that Elizabeth I is rumor to have stayed in . The current structure was build around 1760 as a foolishness : a grand ornamental structure that rich people in the eighteenth century liked to build on their land just for fun . It was finally stretch out several times and transform into a habitable habitation in the nineteenth one C . During WWII , it was used as a camp for Italian captive of state of war .
The seclude , 7500 - square - foot mansion has since been reanimate to include six bedchamber and six toilet , along with amenities like a picture field of operations , gym , wine-colored elbow room , and a conservatory . It ’s been a home menage for the last 30 years , but after follow their kids uprise up and leave behind the nest , the owner are quick to move on . It ’s the thoroughgoing abode for anyone with a brooding Dickensian psyche .
You have until December 16 , 2018 to figure . And if you advance , you owe it to yourself — and Dickens — to rename it Satis House .
