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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Rupert Neate Wealth correspondent

Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead mansion sold for £3m despite tenants refusing to leave

Piers Court in Gloucestershire, once owned by Evelyn Waugh.
Piers Court in Gloucestershire, once owned by Evelyn Waugh. Photograph: Knight Frank

The Grade II*-listed Cotswold mansion where Evelyn Waugh wrote Brideshead Revisited has sold at auction for £3.16m despite buyers being warned that sitting tenants – who are paying a weekly rent of £5 a week – are refusing to leave the property.

Piers Court, at Stinchcombe, a village about halfway between Bristol and Cheltenham, was sold to an unnamed bidder in an online auction on Thursday after the owner defaulted on a loan secured against the eight-bedroom, six-bathroom property.

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