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ONLY Fools and Horses star John Challis’ former country house has gone on the market for a jaw-losing price.
The actor, who played slippery vehicle provider Boycie within the classic sitcom, died in 2021 on the age of seventy 9.
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Wigmore Abbey, in Herefordshire, was sold by the dreary Easiest Fools and Horses actor in 1998.
Challis and his wife Carol then spent over 20 years renovating the fantastic country mansion before his dying.
It was also venerable as the inform for the Easiest Fools bolt-off The Inexperienced, Inexperienced Grass about Boycie’s switch to the countryside.
The spectacular Grade I listed property has now gone on the market for £1.5 million and it comes full a selection of impressive points.
Challis’ former dwelling boasts seven bedrooms, a library, stables, paddocks, intensive outbuildings and extra than 5 acres of land.
The ground floor lodging comprises reception hall with uncovered stone work and elegant oak panelling.
The kitchen is fully fitted with integrated units including a traditional AGA cooker.
The drawing room also has its bask in fire, whereas the 14th Century fly offers “the phenomenal refectory and cellarers room”.
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The Abbots Parlour is described as “a in reality fascinating room”, with intensive uncovered beams, a vast stone chimney with an launch fire.
The first floor entails three “fantastic bedrooms and two lavatories”, whereas the 2nd floor has an further four bedrooms, two of which are en-suite.
Initiate air the stainless landscaped gardens and grounds will let any prospective owner shuffle round 5.29 acres.
Also situated within the grounds are the ruins of a 12th century former Abbey, which is listed as an Old Monument.
The backyard would possibly per chance most certainly per chance even be dwelling to a mesmerizing Grade II summer season house, with the encompassing countryside offering distinctive panoramic views including the within sight Mortimer Forest.
The house was a functioning Augustinian Abbey between 1179 and 1530, when it was razed correct via Henry VIII’s vast scale destruction of Catholic monasteries.
Describing the property, Brand Wiggin Property Brokers mentioned: “Wigmore Abbey is one in all the perfect and most fascinating properties, both historically and architecturally.
“The last Abbot’s Resort forms the principle house as it is right this moment.
“The historical past of the property unravels a vast level to of normal length and persona points for the duration of including the Refectory, being one in all handiest two timber rooted Undercrofts within the country.”
John turn out to be a household name starring within the classic sitcom as cigar-smoking, 2nd-hand vehicle provider Terrance Aubrey Boyce.
His adverse relationship with Del Boy and Rodney Trotter usually saw him within the Nag’s Head swigging cognac.
And Boycie’s clashes with prolonged-suffering wife Marlene left viewers in stitches.
He was beforehand married to stage supervisor Carol Robertson, and actresses Debbie Arnold and Sabina Franklyn.
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