I'm so glad that I'm not the only one that feels that this beautiful, historic house has been "blinged out" with absolutely no sensitivity. I watched till the end of the basement and I couldn't watch any more. It's absolutely sacrilegious that they were allowed to do this to what was probably an equally stunning interior to it's exterior. If I haven't made myself clear 😂 it's HORRENDOUS!
I agree with you a thousand times over! So many homes shown in videos that are just beautiful from the outside and historical, are totally ruined by turning the interior into a cold, ugly and no personalty. This house is seriously ugly inside..
Glad I’m not alone with my thoughts about the interior of this lovely old house. The exterior is so beautiful. Stepping inside is like a slap in the face. Great pity.
The exterior looks absolutely wonderful and the garden is a dream. The interior borders on chaotic with such extreme contrasts, almost tacky. Each individual component would look amazing in a different setting. The stairs leading down to the wine cellar are a work of art for example, don’t fit in this house in my opinion. All a matter of taste however and the owner has obviously spent a lot of time thinking about it all. The kitchen and bedrooms etc are the highlight for me 👍
I agree. I loved the wooden touches - the metal branches, the stairs and stuff like that. I didn't mind the modern kitchen, it's actually very lovely. Where they lost me is when they made an entire bathroom out of mirrors and every living space into a dark gray/silver combo. Don't get me wrong, that is one of my favourite interior styles, but in this house? It clashed too much with the character of the property. I mean, a shiny silver mirror on a wall with wooden beams? Am I the only one gagging at the sight of it?
What have they done to this beautiful cottage? They’ve taken one of the most gorgeous exteriors you could ever see and tried to redo to interior like it’s an Essex new build mixed with a 1970s Soho club. It’s really gaudy, tasteless and tries way too hard. All they had to do was update and maintain the warm cottage feel with high end materials and finish but instead they’ve gone for blue, neon light, furniture that was out of date in the early 00s and mirrors behind the AGA cooker. I was really excited for this look at the thumb nail but it’s so tacky that it’s an insult to the building itself. I really don’t mind modern updates or design but this isn’t that, it’s just design by flailing around trying to look expensive without cohesion, insight or thought as to what fits. Money really doesn’t necessarily buy taste it turns out. So disappointed.
Ruined a beautiful old stately home. I am an American and it is so surprising to see all these British treasures that people with lots of money buy only to ruin with these tacky modern designs. This house reeks of "we have money and no design sense". Only in the UK can you find old Tudors, Edwardian mansions and other similar gems only to fill them with modern Italian glass, led colored lighting and glass stairs. Murano glass is beautiful in the right setting, but this clearly misses the mark.
Gorgeous home exterior. However, I find the interior decor and design absolutely tacky and unmatched for the property type. Buying this for 5 mil would be a loss cause you'd have to change just about everything inside. At what point does the animal print become too much? Makes you wonder how they got away with all of this in a grade listed property.
The House exterior and surrounding gardens are absolutely beautiful, but the interior sadly is a mishmash of different looks that seem to clash. If I was fortunate enough to have money to buy this home, I would take the interior back to match the look of the house, and decorate it with a more cottage feel to it.
To each their own, but the interior looks more like a celebrity house in Los Angeles, California or a posh London flat. Not a historic country house in the UK. Its almost counterintuitive to buy a historic house and then make it ultra modern. Exterior and garden are amazing though.
Sometimes modern contemporary can be mixed with tradition but this time absolutely not. I absolutely love the outside and hate every piece of the inside. You would have to buy it for two million and then spend another two million fixing the inside and restoring it to what it used to be. LOL. This seems like something one of your footballers would do.
The exterior is unbelievably beautiful, but the interior is an abomination! What a disappointment! How can anyone do that to such a wonderful piece of heritage?? Money really can't buy taste.
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Not my cup of tea, the house beautifully from the outside, amazing gardens and annex good upstairs and grate hall the rest though I think the owners have ruined it the lights the glass the stairs mirrors make it look like some type of nightclub/swingers club not a home.. would love the greenhouse though ( would add a vegetable garden and chicken coop though
Beautiful from the outside. Didn’t work from the inside at all. The kitchen was a disaster - did not suit the property. The chandeliers were too much for the size of the property. Tried to bring too much bling into a period properly. Think I only liked the dining room. These owners got it completely wrong.
This is a gorgeous home ( so pretty , especially from the outside ) but there is too much footballer shiny bling going on inside , needs warm lighting & textured fabrics to warm it up .
Lovely house but ruined by the interior design sadly. Gardens are beautiful. It seems to be a trend with people with too much money but zero taste to buy beautiful old properties and then destroy the interiors with ugly out of place modern furniture and fittings. I would love this house but I would need to redecorate. One thing I did like however were the chandeliers, although not sure they fitted the character of the house. Such a shame.
Really didn’t expect the cruise ship interior, shame considering the cost but everyones home is made for them and your own private sanctuary so can’t judge based on my own preferences. The garden and location is amazing
Wow, this has to be the worst home I've ever seen on this channel, just goes to prove money can't buy taste. It's like a nightclub owner from the 1980's was given an open wallet and told "do your worst". Seriously though, it's such a shame to see a stunning property with so much history treated with such contempt.
Was the interior designer shown a different house?! I see that thought was put into some of it (whether those were good thoughts is a different matter), but none of it complements the house. Hope whoever is responsible for this gets their tacky ass haunted by angry Tudor ghosts. Lovely gardens and exterior! Loooove the greenhouse.
So much diversity in that house. Luxurious yet quirky. The house itself is very interesting, lots of nooks and crannies. I likely would have opted for different decor, but so would everyone else, we all have our preferences. The grounds, however, are beautiful.
OMG the property is outstanding...I don't mind bringing modern into an historic home like this, but I think I would have gone mid-century mixed with period antiques. I would like to see some historical artworks mixed with contemporary art like Stella, Rothko or Motherwell...mix it up in an elegant way. I do appreciate a calming environment to live in, but those gardens and lake are a dream. Fascinating property I would love to get my hands on to renovate in a more sensitive direction. Great tour guys!!!...❤
Ermmmm what can I say, think its all been said with comments down below ..From the outside you would never think the inside was going to look like that . Funny not many bedrooms for the size of the house did we miss some out. The gardens were fantastic, shame other large houses with loads of land don't follow suit instead of just having fields and a few trees dotted about. But yeahh nice but id have to do a few alterations inside (cough)
Another ultra modern interior to ruin the stunning external period aspect of this home.. nothing cosy or traditional which is a shame. You can have modern features but have them in keeping with the properties history…
Extreme interior decoration. Some works well, like master and the great room. Other parts not as much for me. Exterior and gardens are perfection. I like the room layout. Lots of nooks and crannies.
Beautiful building. Tacky Interior decor. I would strip it and start again. Some things could be salvaged but not much. Would need half a million to re decorate that size house.
My greatest consideration when looking at large historic properties is never the purchase price (which can often be startlingly reasonable): it's the annual running costs. So many people don't do thorough research and end up selling up after a few years, disappointed, especially if an expensive Grade List-compliant repair needs to be done with some haste too. Gardeners and housekeepers aren't cheap either.
Great tour and very interesting home. Loved the bedrooms, great room and kitchen. The garden is absolutely fantastic, love to see them in the Spring and Summer.
Outside - wonderful, inside an eyesore. Like some paint colours are right for some cars and others are not well I feel that a really modern interior spoils this building because it is not sympathetic to the exterior.
One of your 200 million yr old trees is the Wollemi Pine that you glimpse from the upstairs apartment over the garage. Believed extinct since whenever, it was found again in ONE canyon inside an Australian National Park (the location of which has been a closely guarded secret). So all Wollemi are genetically identical, and all could be wiped out from one disease.
I could have guessed some of the commentary regarding the interior design, BUT I LOVE the lower level that staircase leading down to the lower level is AMAZING!! Stunning and the feel of the old with the new with some imagination, the gardens are SUPERB, and room for a tennis court that would make it great!! LOVE this tour the 17 mins went by without notice as there was so much to appreciate, again others may want all traditional, all the time, but this is just a great meld to ME anyway!!!!! Great tour keep them coming and btw well worth the asking price as is!!!!🥰🥰🥰
16:45 outstanding property with endless charm and cosines.....in some of the rooms...Nothing is wrong nor right but down to the individual owners taste, but to me a bit of English countryside style mixed with Scandinavian taste could do wonders to this spectacular and stunning house. The garden is amazing but too pruned to my liking and it would be nice with more natural shapes and forms on the bushes etc rather than squares and balls.... again taste is difficult to discuss and each to their own.
The interior design is so spectacularly tone deaf given the building that I was laughing in disbelief. Remember how Arsenio Hall did up the flat in Coming to America? 😂
I was attracted to this house online with tje impressive garden and housee exterior .when looking at tha,inside photoi was shocked by the tacky taste . This is probably why the house has been on the market for so long
Wow, this house just keeps giving. Granted, not sure the old and new go well together, excessive use of glass, metal and mood lighting but the house and grounds are amazing, love the interesting old features and layout of the house and impressive cinema room 🤩😍
"Beautifully modernised"? "Old and new perfectly merged"? Are you kidding? The heart of this beautiful home has been wrenched out, all sense of it's history has been eradicated. It's vandalism as far as I'm concerned.
A lovely structure and lovely grounds. The furniture and the metallic stairs are sickening, but the floors and roofs aren't too bad, so provided the layout isn't too awkward(cramped and misplaced rooms with no views), the interior can redone. It is a lovely structure in a town that looks almost like a deserted slum. Would one have good neighbors and great places to go out to, not too far from this house? Good schools? I wonder if the Maidenhead/Reading area would be a better choice because of an under-30-minute commute to London on the Elizabeth Line? Or even if the Royston area(I did like the modern house with a barn(for parties) in Royston) would be better based on its proximity to Cambridge? This is over an hour from London, so I would lose almost 2 to 3 hours/day commuting, unless there are trendy places nearby? I would want intellectual companionship and trendy nightlife, cafes, and restaurants, not too far, for myself and good schools, for my children. I would also want people with intelligible accents, so we don't have to spend hours talking back and forth, as I don't comprehend their accents and they don't comprehend mine. I've spent 2 to 3 months almost every year in London(mostly in Sussex Square and Earl's Court) through the early 1990s, but haven't ventured too far out(except for ferries from Dover and Harwich into the continent and for the recreational hubs around Cheshire), so not sure if London, Cambridge or another city would be a better option?Not sure if inner city life for walking access to the cultural venues or if the suburbs with larger homes would be a better option? I do need grounds for my children to play with a ball and run around and, perhaps, even play tennis or badminton, so even homes with small grounds like the one in Seven Oaks would suffice. Not sure if placement on the routes into Reading, those into Cambridge, those into Canterbuy, or those into Southampton would be preferred?Not sure if proximity to transport hubs for access to the rest of the UK or those with access to the continent would be preferred for the holidays? I spent most of my early life in a country with sweltering summers(40 to 50 degrees Celsius) and brief winters( -1 to 0 degrees Celsius), so preferred forays into the Arctic during my youth, but, now, in my mid-50s, I prefer warmer climes and less strenuous activities. I still prefer 2-storey homes for the views, but would be spending all of my time on ground floor as I age. I would typically want multiple, large, and wide-open outdoor and indoor living, social and recreational spaces. I want a home to provide me with a lifestyle and access to additional lifestyle venues in the neighborhood. I don't need a mere place to sleep in or to sit on the couch
What grade is the building because depending on that it might not even be worth buying it. You would have to repair an old building the same methods used in its creation and that’s so expensive. Never mind the initial price and stamp tax. Edit: ahh ok wrote this before I heard it was grade 2…still pricey af
What a beautiful property on the outside. The interior is totally horrific. If I purchased that property, I would have to have it totally gutted out. As Bart Simpson would say "CRAPTACULAR".
Someone should be arrested for the destruction of the history and integrity of the interior of this house. Looks like a tacky footballers house. You would need to spend the same again to restore it smh
It's funny how so many people dislike the interiors. I like the contrast between medieval and Madonna- especially appreciate the "practical luxury" such as hydraulic chandeliers and self-cleaning toilets. I think even Henry 8th would have preferred the sparkly interiors to his dank lodges! Haha!
If its a proper listed property not mock one everything would have to be recoverable ie extra protective wall so old protected makes any renovation much more expensive but all basement looks like nightclub not in a good way a mess of styles. I love elizabethan design they killed it inside is the best way to describe it.
They did this to one of our oldest pubs it caused massive uproar they thought they damaged it permanently it was beautiful tudor Inn now looks like a modern cafe. I don't think Town forgave council for it
