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THIS week sees the launch in COUNTRY LIFE of the last major country-house sale of 2022—that of the exquisite, Grade I-listed Great Tangley Manor at Wonersh, near Guildford, in the prestigious Surrey Hills AONB, which comes to the market at a guide price of £11 million through the country departments of Savills (020–7409 8823) and Strutt & Parker (020–7591 2207).

Thought to be Britain’s oldest continuously inhabited house, Great Tangley Manor represents a happy union of medieval and Arts-and-Crafts architecture that has been celebrated in COUNTRY LIFE many times over the years, notably in the issues of February 12, 1898; July 30, 1898; August

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