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An Englishman’s home is his castle

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LAST week saw the launch onto the market of one of Northamptonshire’s landmark country houses, Grade II-listed Barnwell Manor, with its Grade I-listed castle ruins set in 27 acres of gardens and parkland, half a mile north of Barnwell village, which is separated from the market town of Oundle by the River Nene.

Crispin Holborow of Savills (020–3320 8245) seeks ‘offers in excess of £4.75 million’ for the rambling stone manor house built, according to its listing, for the Montagu family in the late 16th or early 17th century and altered or extended in the mid 18th century, late 18th/early 19th century and late 19th/early 20th century, with remodelling by Sir Albert Richardson

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