Own a piece of Steventon Manor
…for the low, low price of £895,000.
FLOORBOARDS salvaged from the ruins of Steventon Manor, in the home village of novelist Jane Austen, are laid in the barn conversion that creates a spectacular drawing room to a listed property.
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A two-storey extension added in the 19th century includes the Victorian or Georgian-style dining room, with exposed beams and a large fireplace, and the incorporation of an original barn.
The barn is now a drawing room that Dreweatt Neate describes as “spectacular”.
As well as the Steventon Manor floorboards, there is a heavily beamed, vaulted ceiling and an open fireplace.
These would have been the floorboards of the manor house when Jane Austen lived there; the manor was rented by the Digweed family. The current Steventon Manor, next door to St. Nicholas’ Church, is of more modern date. The original manor was demolished in the 1970s, we understand in a state of extreme disrepair.
January 16th, 2007 at 4:39 pm
895,000! Wow, I’m a very nostalgic person and I think it would be neat to own a piece of the house Jane Austen lived in, but I’m sorry if I don’t want to plunk down my life savings (not to mention enough money to buy two houses) for some deteriorating floorboards. I guess a REALLY passionate Janeite would think it was worth it, but I think I’ll just stick with the most prized things Jane Austen left behind, her novels.
January 19th, 2007 at 4:35 am
Actually, Jane didn’t live in the manor house, but she probably would have visited there. (I guess my original posting was a little unclear! Sorry about that! I meant when she lived in Steventon.)