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"An exceptional, historic and unique Grade I Listed Victorian Gothic Tower
forming a fabulous private home with luxury living over five floors with lift.
Award winning £4.2 Million English Heritage and Heritage Lottery Fund
restoration in 2013.
If the ultimate in unique properties is your idea of home, then look no further
than the magnificent Hadlow Tower – or ‘May’s Folly’ as it is less reverently
named by the locals. Once part of a Romantic Gothic style 18th century castle,
the 175ft eight storey tower stands six foot higher than Nelson’s Column and is
visible from Bidborough to Sevenoaks. Having fallen into disrepair and severely
damaged in the 1987 storm, it was restored in 2013 at a cost of £4.2 million
with grants provided by English Heritage and the Heritage Lottery Fund. Its
impressive restoration won multiple Historic England Angel Awards as well as
the Lloyd-Webber Angel Award.
Now a fabulous private home it is accessed through the fantastic triple arched
and castellated Romantic Gothic entrance on Hadlow village high street. There
is a long and winding private road that passes a few individual properties and
stunning countryside as far as the eye can see and ultimately leads to the
spectacular tower, a parking area and the impressive walled courtyard. This
includes additional buildings and a fabulous external window in what was
thought to be the original castle entrance. The ancillary buildings have now
been converted into six private dwellings and, together with the tower
custodian, the owners of these six properties are responsible for the wonderful
communal grounds that include sweeping lawns interspersed with impressive
specimen trees and a beautiful lake encircled by a plethora of colourful
shrubs."
Via Esther Schindler, who wrote "If you have ever wanted to live in an ivory
tower, this one is for sale in the UK for £2,780,000."
Share and enjoy,
*** Xanni ***
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