As the former actual demesne adage goes , localization is everything . And sometimes , one ’s 500 - year - former planetary house is simply in the wrong stain … and one must move tell mansion , brick - by - brick , to a more desirable savoir-faire 70 miles away .
This exploit of engineering and whim in reality go on , as theTelegraphreports , over 100 years ago :
Wealthy antiquarian Walter Thornton - Smith wanted to uproot the mansion from the banks of the river Colne near Chelmsford and re - build it in Kingston - on - Thames on the other side of London .
He had the menage , Cedar Court , which was to begin with built in 1483 , moved brick by brick to Kingston where it was put back together again on a piece of dry land he ’d purchased near Coombe Hill golf path .
The 12 bedroom , nine bathroom house had fancy many changed over the centuries , even serving as a pub and a piece of furniture store before he bought it for £ 350 in 1910 and then spend £ 30,000 dismantling and re - building it in Kingston by 1912 .
Every part of the building was sectioned out and numbered so that it could be adhere back together again precisely as it was after its trip across the capital .
Now this house ( £ 350 , with a “ tatty window dressing ” to rush ! ) is on the market for £ 14 million , or around $ 22 million , cause it in all probability the most expensive mobile home ever built , and surely the only one with “ six response rooms ” plus “ a draftsmanship room and morning room , ” all of which for certain serve different and very specific purposes . ( They must , ripe ? Any wealthy antiquarians out there who know ? )
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