Wakelyn Old Hall, Main Street Hilton, Derbyshire. £595k


Wakelyn Old Hall is listed Grade II* and was, until recently, on the buildings at risk register. However that period of distress is now behind it and it has been underpinned and rebuilt where necessary and is now ‘strong and stable’ as well as extremely eye catching and pretty.  


I love the grey blue paint on the exterior windows and doors and the garden planting is restrained and tasteful. 

Of course, sadly in the case of some houses I have already shown you, one does not have to keep the furniture the current occupants have chosen.  But just as one can hire in the services of a ‘house doctor’ to help ‘de clutter’ a home before it is marketed, I sometimes wish one could hire in the services of a couple of old fashioned, gay antique dealers, to restore a degree of seriousness and masculine strength to a house where a woman has had her way.  I’m afraid this architectural gem has been rendered rather frivolous by the girlish taste of a person who one assumes must be a teenage hairdresser.

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However, the colour schemes are all liveable with, and the bathroom and kitchen fittings are fine.  So don’t be put off, but imagine instead the joy one could have searching the local auction houses for early oak furniture, coffers, dressers, court and livery cupboards, mule chests, refectory and gate leg tables, bible boxes, Knowle sofas, Persian rugs, 17th century mirrors with dark, mercury glass, old pewter plates, and stoneware, still life paintings, a virginals or clavichord or two.

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