A stunning estate in Cheshire that has heaps of history is on the property market for what is understood to be the first time. Since the early 14th century, the Adlington Hall estate in Macclesfield has been home to generations of the Legh family but after 700 years it is now up for sale with an eye-watering £30 million price tag.
The entire estate is made up of Adlington Hall, six equipped farms, twenty-one residential properties, an events space, a village hall, and a total of 1,922 acres. It is being offered for sale by joint agents Savills and Mark Wiggin Estate Agency with a guide price between £10,000,000 to £30,000,000 as it's also available to buy in up to 25 lots.
Adlington Hall can be traced back to Saxon times when the house was owned by Norman Earls for seven generations until 1221, when it passed to the Crown. Henry III then passed the manor onto Hugh de Corona and, after the marriage of one of his granddaughters to John de Legh of Booth, Adlington Hall became the ancestral home of the Legh family.
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Today, it is the host of many weddings, corporate events, awards ceremonies, photoshoots and filming locations with several Sherlock Holmes episodes having been filmed there.
The Grade I listed house has a rich architectural history with a distinctive Tudor façade to the east and Georgian front to the south.
The Great Hall on the north side was added between 1480 and 1505 and, after two sieges during the Civil War and years of neglect, some restoration work took place in later years.
In 1739, when Charles Legh inherited it, it was transformed from a medium sized Tudor property into a large Georgian Manor house. The next large scale structural changes occurred in 1928 when much of the west wing side of the quadrangle was replaced.
The gardens and grounds around Adlington Hall include the pleasure gardens knows as The Wilderness, which have survived many hundreds of years under the Legh family’s careful management.
There are a further twenty plus residential properties spread across the estate, with six that form part of farm tenancies and others including period mews houses, lodges and semi-detached cottages with many of them being let.
The new buyer could be taking on a great investment opportunity with a £430,000 yearly income that comes from the residential, commercial, and agricultural rent rolls as well as trading income from events, public openings and other arrangements.
Rhydian Scurlock-Jones, director at Savills in Telford, said: “The Adlington Hall Estate has a rich and varied history and the estate has evolved over time. Today, many traditional elements that are synonymous with an estate of this importance are complemented by diverse income sources, the most recent being its commitment to providing habitat enhancements for local development.”
Mark Wiggin of joint agents Mark Wiggin Estate Agents adds, “ It is not often you can say a house/estate has not been for sale for over 700 years. That in itself shows how remarkable Adlington is. We all hope that we can find somebody who appreciates the history and the opportunities the estate has and continues to offer.”
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