We're selling our wonderful £21 million family castle after 700 years and 28 generations

Daily Mail ^ | February 1, 2025 | KATHRYN KNIGHT

[BatGuano]

I would like to buy that property.
But, besides being millions short of the asking price, I am three months short of 85 years of age!

[skr]

The nightmare is the inheritance tax for such properties.

[ansel12]

A good wench is useful anywhere, at any time.

[bankwalker]

ditch the clodhoppers and I’ll take her ...

[heavy metal]

kinda has trumpshire written all over it...

[DannyTN]

Well if you have a castle, wenches should be easy to come by.

[Jamestown1630]

Maybe someone with lots of money will turn it into a thriving ‘event’ venue.

I would never want to try and live in or manage an old pile like that.

[mass55th]

Families like this, many times can make deals with Britain's National Historic Trust for Preservation. They turn over the estate to the Trust, in return for being able to remain in the homes. They just have to agree to open the house for public events or house tours so many days a year. I would imagine there are high government fees if you sell the house on the market.

Inheritance taxes in the UK are horrible. That's why so many home owners have been forced use their homes to earn money in other ways than just for traditional farming. In the old days, heirs had to sell off art collections, furniture, parcels of land, etc., to pay the inheritance taxes.

In 20th century Britain, a lot of families who couldn't afford to live in the homes or pay the taxes on them, either had interiors salvaged for sale, then had the homes torn down, or took the roofs off of them so they wouldn't have to pay the taxes on them. You had to pay taxes on a home that was inhabitable. It is a shame that so many historic homes were lost during that time. That's one of the reasons the National Trust was organized, to save these homes for the British people.

[decal]

Is there a dungeon?

[heavy metal]

a winch pulls you out of a hole...

a wench pulls you into a hole...

[Lazamataz]

Ok, you just won the thread.

[wjcsux]

Are they downsizing to a two bedroom two bath condo?

[mass55th]

"Does it come with serfs and peasants?"

If you own the home, you're the serf and peasant according to the British government.

[mass55th]

"Does it come with serfs and peasants?"

If you own the home, you're the serf and peasant according to the British government.

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wench
/wen(t)SH/
noun
noun: wench; plural noun: wenches

1.
archaic•humorous
a girl or young woman.
“in the new film about Columbus, she plays the token buxom wench”

[Maine Mariner]

And of course add in any extra costs for hungry crocodiles eating visitors.

[gundog]

If you need a gamekeeper, I’d work cheap, provided there’s a cottage away from the main grounds.

[Orosius]

Comes with a nice lake and the family cemetery plot out front.

Some rich Arab will buy it for weekend getaways from the jihad.

[grey_whiskers]

Pit-a-pat.

[Bob434]

lol- run out of batteries in the first large room