TODAY sees the launch onto the market of Grade I-listed Knightstone Manor at Ottery St Mary, Devon, described by Christopher Hussey in COUNTRY LIFE (September 8 and 15, 1950) as ‘one of the most complete surviving examples of a 14th century manor house’, now for sale through Knight Frank (01392 423111) for ‘offers over £4.5 million’.
For the past 20-odd years, Knightstone has been the much-loved family home of the charismatic Jan-Eric Osterlund, a man of boundless energy and wide-ranging interests, who chaired a public investment company in his native Sweden before moving, in 1983, to England, where he built up a venture capital group investing mainly in medical technology and biotech. Second only to his
