{"id":2751,"date":"2015-10-01T15:28:05","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T15:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/the-tale-of-an-unloved-mansion\/"},"modified":"2018-02-19T14:02:34","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T14:02:34","slug":"the-tale-of-an-unloved-mansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/the-tale-of-an-unloved-mansion\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tale of an Unloved Mansion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- SEO Ultimate Plus (https:\/\/seoultimateplus.com) - Code Inserter module -->\n<script async>(function(s,u,m,o,j,v){j=u.createElement(m);v=u.getElementsByTagName(m)[0];j.async=1;j.src=o;j.dataset.sumoSiteId='b68b392479b5981b8acf46565e9fe32a0734fc21a1f7c1e60121eaa6ca1a1c64';v.parentNode.insertBefore(j,v)})(window,document,'script','\/\/load.sumo.com\/');<\/script>\n<!-- \/SEO Ultimate Plus -->\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2014\/09\/16\/1410860364020_Image_galleryImage_Exterior_of_the_abandoned.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"600\" align=\"none\" \/><\/div>\n<div><span size=\"1\" style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">image source:\u00a0http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2014\/09\/16\/1410860364020_Image_galleryImage_Exterior_of_the_abandoned.JPG<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span size=\"1\" style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span size=\"1\" style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span size=\"1\" style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"><span size=\"3\" style=\"font-size: medium;\">Overstone Hall in Northamptonshire is an interesting sight, but not in the way it was intended to be. The crumbling walls covered in vines and greenery conjure up images of ghost <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\" title=\"floors\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/storey\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0502\/entity\/storey;http:\/\/rdf.freebase.com\/ns\/m.02vk6kk;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/Storey\" >stories<\/a> or post-apocalyptic movies; a\u00a0<span color=\"#0000ff\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2757667\/Overgrown-falling-apart-114-room-19th-century-mansion-wanted-sale.html\">photographer<\/a>\u00a0<\/u><\/span>even described his visit to the site as &#8220;surreal and haunting&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"><span size=\"3\" style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"><img src=\"http:\/\/news.images.itv.com\/image\/file\/303915\/article_img.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"none\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"><span size=\"1\" style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">image source:\u00a0<span class=\"irc_ho\" dir=\"ltr\"><a class=\"_ZR irc_hol\" href=\"http:\/\/www.castlesoftherealm.com\/2013\/12\/19\/future-secured-for-land-mark-italian-style-mansion-in-northamptonshire-anglia-itv-news\/\">www.castlesoftherealm.com<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"><span size=\"1\" style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"><span size=\"1\" style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"><span size=\"3\" style=\"font-size: medium;\">Yes, Overstone Hall looks like a haunted <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\" title=\"houses\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/house\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0502\/entity\/house;http:\/\/rdf.freebase.com\/ns\/m.03jm5;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/House\" >house<\/a>, and like all haunted houses, it has a sad story behind it. It was commissioned by Lady Overstone to replace the current house in Overstone Park, and it was built by the architect William Milford Teulon. Lady Overstone didn&#8217;t live to see the house completed, and her husband Lord Overstone, hated it. He didn&#8217;t like the design &#8211; a cross between Elizabethan and Renaissance styles &#8211; and refused to live in it. He did, however, bequeath it to his daughter when he died in 1883.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"><span size=\"3\" style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2014\/09\/16\/1410862979958_wps_47_A_picture_of_the_lounge_i.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\" align=\"none\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">Overstone Hall in it&#8217;s glory days<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"><span size=\"1\" style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">image source:\u00a0http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2757667\/Overgrown-falling-apart-114-room-19th-century-mansion-wanted-sale.html<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"><span size=\"3\" style=\"font-size: medium;\">Overstone&#8217;s daughter Harriet Sarah Lloyd, also known as Lady Wantage, only used the house occasionally for winter parties. When Wantage died in 1920, the house was sold to Sir Philip Scott, who wanted to use it as a training base for the Conservative party, but he ended up selling it in 1929, and part of the <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/building\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0502\/entity\/building;http:\/\/rdf.freebase.com\/ns\/m.0cgh4;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/Building\" >building<\/a> became a girls boarding school.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"><span size=\"3\" style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"><span size=\"3\" style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2014\/09\/16\/1410862178790_wps_29_View_from_the_upper_floor.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\" align=\"none\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">image source:\u00a0http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2757667\/Overgrown-falling-apart-114-room-19th-century-mansion-wanted-sale.html<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0.35cm; line-height: 115%;\"><span size=\"3\" style=\"font-size: medium;\">It was bought by the New Testament Church of God for over \u00a3700,000 and was used by them until a great fire in 2001 destroyed most of the <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/mansion\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0502\/entity\/mansion;http:\/\/rdf.freebase.com\/ns\/m.02pvbb;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/Mansion\" >mansion<\/a>. Though the <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/property\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0502\/entity\/property;http:\/\/rdf.freebase.com\/ns\/m.05wrt;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/Property\" >property<\/a> at present is still owned by the New Testament Church, it is has now been put on the <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\" title=\"Market (economics)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/market-economics\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0502\/entity\/market_economics;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/Market_(economics)\" >market<\/a>. It was put up for purchase in 2010 for \u00a31 million (though the cost to fix it up would be much higher) but failed to find a buyer. There have <span color=\"#0000ff\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daventrydc.gov.uk\/your-council\/news\/councillors-welcome-restoration-planscouncillors-welcome-restoration-plans-6-12-13\/\">been some plans made to restore it<\/a><\/u><\/span>, and a <span color=\"#0000ff\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OverstoneHouseActionGroup\/\">Facebook group<\/a><\/u><\/span> has been set up calling for such a <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\" title=\"Building restoration\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/building-restoration\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0502\/entity\/building_restoration;http:\/\/rdf.freebase.com\/ns\/m.02xfxd;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/Building_restoration\" >restoration<\/a>, but it is still searching for an interested buyer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0.35cm; line-height: 115%;\"><span size=\"3\" style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0.35cm; line-height: 115%;\"><span size=\"3\" style=\"font-size: medium;\">Gareth Brown<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; image source:\u00a0http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2014\/09\/16\/1410860364020_Image_galleryImage_Exterior_of_the_abandoned.JPG \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Overstone Hall in Northamptonshire is an interesting sight, but not in the way it was intended to be. 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