The lesson is: "if you're willing to be a little adventurous, the best houses do not all come at a premium". From the timesonline.co.uk, there was a news about Hall in Buckinghamshire, the one country house securely attributable to England's greatest architect, Sir Christopher Wren, a masterpiece in design and architectural phase, for which Jackson-Stops & Staff is asking £3million.
Not only is Tony Blair not thinking of moving into it after all, but the agent has not received a single offer. A breathtaking masterpiece. True, the ground floor of a wing at Winslow is leased to the local Roman Catholic congregation, and Chicheley looks a little close to Milton Keynes on the map, but both are within a 90-minute drive of London and still faster by train. It's not as if Buckinghamshire is without a new generation of tycoons.
The star this year at 2007 best house property was Rodborough Fort building, a Victorian castle-style folly set in a breathtaking position on the edge of a 300-acre common run by the National Trust. From the windows we can look across the Severn estuary to the Black Mountains. Both the interior and the garden needed a lot of work but it sold close to the guide price of £1.85million. None of them comes from the modern minimalism architecture design style. news from timesonline.co.uk