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Author Evelyn Waugh’s quaint Cotswolds mansion is up for sale for $3 million, but her current ‘tenants from hell’ won’t let prospective buyers take a look!
- The eight-bedroom property is in the village of Stinchcombe, Gloucestershire
- Prospective buyers can’t see Piers Court because the tenants refuse to leave
- Waugh bought it for £3,600 in 1937 and wrote Brideshead Revisited there.
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With rent bills skyrocketing, it’s no surprise that tenants paying £250 a year to live in a Cotswolds mansion once owned by Evelyn Waugh are reluctant to leave.
But his refusal to do so thwarts attempts to sell the property, which has been auctioned with a asking price of £400,000 less than the £2.9m it sold for just four years ago.
Prospective buyers can’t see Piers Court because the current tenants refuse to leave and won’t let estate agents or buyers in.
The eight-bedroom property is located in the village of Stinchcombe, Gloucestershire. The novelist Waugh bought it for £3,600 in 1937.
Potential buyers are not allowed to see Piers Court because the current tenants refuse to leave and do not let estate agents or buyers in. The auction of the property takes place on December 15.
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 Piers Court auction takes place on December 15.
Auctioneers have warned prospective buyers: ‘The property is held under common law tenure at a rent of £250 per annum.
An eviction notice was served on the occupant on August 19, 2022 and a copy of said notice was posted on the property gate on August 22, 2022.
“Prospective buyers should take their own legal advice in this regard and will be deemed to bid accordingly.”
Waugh 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 £2.9m to a company controlled by former BBC executive Jason Blain.
Blain bought the mansion with a £2.1 million loan from London bank C Hoare & Co.
In January this year, it emerged that Blain was being sued by the five-star Mandarin Oriental hotel near Hyde Park over an alleged unpaid bill.
According to documents filed with the High Court, he allegedly booked a £4,275-per-night penthouse for six days, but stayed for eight months.
In 2019, the house was sold for £2.9m to a company controlled by former BBC executive Jason Blain (pictured above in 2009 with producer Deborah Schindler).
The eight-bedroom property is located 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 reference price of £400,000 less than the £2.9 million it sold for just four years ago.
Blain was accused of still owing £731,500 of a £1.25 million bill, along with other charges such as £55,000 in service charges, £30,100 for valet parking and £25,497 for room service.
He was said to have emailed the luxury hotel in June last year saying: “The bill is of course my debt and this will be reversed at a future time.”
Blain, who lives in Perthshire, Scotland, was brought to trial in November 2021 by Torsten van Dullemen, the Mandarin’s general manager.
They claim he paid £508,500 of the bill, with the most recent one coming on June 9, 2021 for £25,000.
The claimant said he emailed area finance director Allan Collier to admit he owed the money and said he would pay it “at a future time.”
But the mandarin was then seeking a refund of £740,832.01.