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Emma Magnus

Restored windmill home with a string of famous former owners goes on sale for £1.65 million in Buckinghamshire

The windmill and adjoining cottage at Rays Hill, Braziers End, Chorlesbury

(Picture: Savills)

In Mark Gertler’s 1916 painting “Gilbert Cannan and his Mill”, the writer and dramatic critic Cannan stands in front of his home — a converted windmill surrounded by a white fence — with his two dogs.

Today, more than 90 years later, the painting is on display at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford — and the Grade-II listed windmill is on sale for £1.65 million.

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