Somerset may be more readily associated with cider than with water, but the launch onto the market of Parish?s House, at Timsbury, near Bath through Savills (01225 474543), at a guide price of £3m recalls the county?s swashbuckling maritime past.
The exquisite Regency villa, listed Grade II*, was built in about 1816 by Captain John Parish, who fought with Nelson at the Battle of the Nile. Its construction is said to have been funded by bounty money earned from the capture of a Spanish treasure-ship. Subsequent owners include Lady Mount Temple, and shipping magnate Bernard Cayzer, who bought Parish?s House after the Second World War and commissioned the interior decorator Jean Monro to refurbish its elegant interior.
This article first appeared in Country Life magazine on April 20, 2006.
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'I have lost a treasure, such a sister, such a friend as never can have been surpassed': Inside Jane Austen's Winchester home, the house where she penned her final words and drew her final breathJane Austen spent the last days of her life in rented lodgings in Winchester, Hampshire. Adam Rattray describes the remarkable recent discoveries made about the house in which she died.
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An utterly charming island home in Scotland with gardens so beautiful they made the cover of Country LifeAn Cala on the Isle of Seil has a fascinating history that is only enhanced by its amazing setting.
