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LOCATED on high ground overlooking the Thames between Marlow and Maidenhead, east Berkshire, Grade II-listed The Mount in Spring Lane, Cookham Dean, is an imposing, mainly late-Victorian country house set in 3½ acres of gardens and grounds. It is probably best known for its association with the author Kenneth Grahame, whose boyhood memories of life there reputedly inspired his children’s classic The Wind in the Willows. It is now on the market, for the first time in 54 years, at a guide price of £4 million through Savills in Windsor (01753 834600).
In 1864, following his wife’s untimely death, Grahame’s father moved to France and their son, aged four, was sent to live with his grandmother at The was edited and published.
