Country Life

Pride of place

THE launch onto the market of the historic Chobham Park estate, near Chobham, in leafy north-west Surrey, at a guide price of £15 million through Knight Frank (01483 565171), signals the resumption of normal service at the upper end of the country-house market following the Christmas break. Built using older materials in about 1700 on a site owned by Chertsey Abbey since 675, the principal estate house, Grade II-listed Chobham Park House, has been in its time a manor house, a royal hunting lodge, a gentleman’s country seat, a tenanted farmhouse, a grand country

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