Mansion once owned by Evelyn Waugh goes on sale for £2.5million

The picturesque Cotswolds mansion once owned by Evelyn Waugh that is on the market for £2.5million – but prospective buyers won’t be able to have a viewing because the tenants only pay £250 rent a year and won’t let them in

• Eight-bedroom property is in the village of Stinchcombe, Gloucestershire
• Prospective buyers unable to view Piers Court as tenants are refusing to leave 
• Novelist Waugh bought it for £3,600 in 1937 and wrote Brideshead Revisited there

With rent bills rocketing, it is little wonder tenants paying £250 a year to live at a Cotswolds mansion once owned by Evelyn Waugh are reluctant to leave.

But their refusal to do so is frustrating attempts to sell the property, which has been put up for auction with a guide price of £400,000 less than the £2.9million it was sold for just four years ago.

Prospective buyers are unable to view Piers Court because the current tenants are refusing to leave and will not let estate agents or buyers in.

The eight-bedroom property is in the village of Stinchcombe, Gloucestershire. Novelist Waugh bought it for £3,600 in 1937.

Prospective buyers are unable to view Piers Court because the current tenants are refusing to leave and will not let estate agents or buyers in. The auction of the property takes place on December 15

He lived at Piers Court for 19 years and wrote novels including Brideshead Revisited, Officers and Gentlemen and Men at Arms in the library there.

In 2019 it was sold for £2.9million to a company controlled by Jason Blain, a former BBC executive. Mr Blain bought the mansion with a £2.1million loan from the London bank C Hoare & Co.

The auction of Piers Court takes place on December 15.

The eight-bedroom property is in the village of Stinchcombe, Gloucestershire. Novelist Evelyn Waugh bought it for £3,600 in 1937. It has been put up for auction with a guide price of £400,000 less than the £2.9million it was sold for just four years ago

Evelyn Waugh (pictured) lived at Piers Court for 19 years and wrote novels including Brideshead Revisited, Officers and Gentlemen and Men at Arms in the library there

The auctioneers have warned prospective buyers: ‘The property is occupied under a Common Law Tenancy at a rent of £250 per annum.

‘A notice to quit was served on the occupant on 19 August 2022 and a copy of such notice was affixed to the property gate on 22 August 2022.

‘Prospective purchasers should take their own legal advice regarding this and will be deemed to bid accordingly.’

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