property
Island Life - June/July 2010
featured property
Arreton
Sole Agents
Guide Price £1,950,000
Creasey Biles and King are pleased to
be offering Arreton Manor for sale.
14th Century.
used as a Gift Shop when the Manor
This combination of fine architectural
was open to the public and which now
Managing Director of Creasey Biles and
features - including Tudor arched
offer all sorts of potential perhaps for
King – Sam Biles said: “Having first
doorways, stone mullioned windows,
conversion to holiday letting units.
gone round Arreton Manor on a school
wood panelling and much more – and
trip 30 years ago and having been
the recently undertaken comprehensive
and nestling beneath the southern
impressed by the historic appeal of the
and sympathetic restoration
slope of Arreton Down in the Arreton
property it is a privilege to be offering,
programme, gives this property a wide
Valley, countryside walks are on the
this, one of the Islands’ most renowned
appeal, both as a residential purchase
doorstep. You might not need to leave
Jacobean Manor Houses for sale.”
and for those who might wish to
the extensive grounds of formal garden
explore a variety of commercial and
‘rooms’ and traditional, period box
number of them, in fact from as far
semi-commercial oppo rtunities. The
hedge knot gardens which surround
back as Alfred The Great and later
property is substantial, without being
the property, as it is accessed by a
visited by both Charles the 1st and
rambling and works well as a family
tree-lined driveway, taking you away
Queen Victoria, whose attachment
home, or past uses as an upmarket
from the hubbub of everyday life and
to the Isle of Wight is well known,
guesthouse and venue for weddings
on the road to a traditional oasis where
this historic home is mentioned in the
or other events could be continued.
peace and privacy prevail. For a copy of
Domesday book of 1086 and parts of
Period outbuildings include The Old
the full printed brochure, please call
the existing building date back to the
Barn and The Old Dairy. The latter once
the Newport office on 01983 527444.
Once the property of a monarch – a
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Set in some four and a half acres
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