Led Zeppelin manager’s Grade I listed Horselunges Manor goes on the market for £4.5million, complete with parlour, billiards room, gym and of course Stairway to Heaven
Led Zeppelin manager’s Grade I listed Horselunges Manor has gone on the market for £4.5million.
The mansion – complete with a parlour, billiards room and a gym – even has a its very own ‘Stairway to Heaven’, with one of the earliest examples of a well staircase, a flight of steps that have a landing and turn back on themselves.
They were built in the early 16th century and were singled out by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner in his book The Buildings of England.
The manor was the home of Peter Grant in the 1970s and 1980s.
Grant was the legendary rock band’s manager from their creation in 1968 through to their breakup in 1980 and is described as ‘one of the shrewdest and most ruthless managers in rock history’.
Led Zeppelin manager’s Grade I listed Horselunges Manor (pictured) has gone on the market for £4.5million
The mansion even has a its very own ‘Stairway to Heaven’, with one of the earliest examples of a well staircase (pictured)
Pictured is one of the six bedrooms at the manor, which was the home of Peter Grant in the 1970s and 1980s
Grant was the legendary rock band’s manager from their creation in 1968 through to their breakup in 1980. Pictured is a study in the manor
The house featured in The Song Remains the Same, the 1976 concert film about the band, and Grant suggested basing Swan Song Records, the label the band created in 1974 when their contract with Atlantic Records ended, at the property.
The incredible historic home includes a six-bedroom main house, additional self-contained accommodation and 30 acres of land in Hellingly, East Sussex.
It was built in about 1408 by John Devenish, whose family owned it for several generations.
It has a number of medieval architectural and period features including elaborate wood panelling and carving, stained glass and oriel windows, moulded timber beam ceilings and elaborate fireplaces.
It also has a natural spring-fed 30ft wide moat with a bridge across it to access the house and formal gardens.
Grant bought the house in the 1970s for £80,000 and spent a further £10,000 on renovations.
When Lez Zeppelin broke up and then the record label folded in 1983, Grant effectively retired from the music business to the estate.
He sold the property in the early 1990s. Grant died, aged 60, in 1995 after a heart attack and was buried in the local church at Hellingly.
The current owners have had the property for the last 30 years.
The main house a grand and imposing Great Parlour, an impressive dining room, a billiard room and a gym.
The manor was built in about 1408 by John Devenish, whose family owned it for several generations. Pictured is the dining room
It has a number of medieval architectural and period features including elaborate wood panelling and carving
Other features include stained glass and oriel windows, moulded timber beam ceilings and elaborate fireplaces
There is also an attached self-contained two-bedroom cottage annexe, a self-contained three-bedroom flat above the eight-car garage block and a two-bedroom Stables cottage and a number of farm buildings.
The grounds come to 5.5 acres and include the formal gardens surrounding the main house, raised vegetables beds and a greenhouse, a heated swimming pool, which is in need of updating, and two small paddocks.
There is also another 24.5 acres of farmland and woodland and about 450 yards of double bank on the Cuckmere River.
Robert Batcheller, from estate agents Batcheller Monkhouse, said: ‘What must it be like to live in a house with such history both ancient and modern – if the walls could talk!
‘Peter Grant, manager of the world-famous rock band Led Zeppelin, lived at Horselunges and the house featured in the film The Song Remains the Same.
‘Sir Nikolas Pevsner devotes nearly a page in his book ‘The Buildings of England’ to Horselunges Manor, which is praise indeed when the great majority of the houses he chose are dealt with in a few lines. He stated Horselunges Manor to be ‘One of the most spectacular of Sussex timber houses’.
‘It is an exceptional Grade I Listed moated manor, rich in medieval architecture.’
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