Country manor, near Market Rasen, Lincs.
A post-auction beauty for you to daydream over today. The amazing Manna House was a tip off from Wreck reader Sean. It's a real country pile - nine bedrooms, a gaggle of reception rooms, stables, outbuildings and a chunky 1.82 acres at Kirmond-le-Mire, around five miles from pretty Market Rasen . Manna House failed to sell at auction a couple of weeks ago - presumably because it's in a bit of a state. Massive, massive renovation job on a building architecturally important ( Lincolnshire (The Buildings of England) ) enough to have already attracted interest from council planners. It had previously been part of the Sutton family's estate (Lincolnshire landowners with a long history and £142m worth of assets ) and was sold by Sir Richard Sutton in 2008 for £225k to the Hills and their mortgage lender. I'm sure the Hills originally intended to do the place up, but it's ended up in a pretty sorry state, and was put up for auction by solicitors Wilkin Chapma...