Pricey: The 48-room country pile is being sold by English Heritage after it bought it for £3 million eight years ago
Yours For Just £2.5million… The Magnificent 48-Room Jacobean Mansion Now On Sale (But No Bath And A £100,000-A-Year Maintenance Bill) -- The Daily Mail
* Apethorpe Hall, near Oundle, Northamptonshire, was once a haunt of James I, Elizabeth I and Charles I
* It has a minstrels' gallery, 18th century classical library and Italianate gardens
* English Heritage have lavished millions on its restoration since buying it for £3m eight years ago
* James I himself is reputed to have enjoyed homosexual trysts in a secret bedroom after meeting 'sweetheart' courtier George Villiers at the hall
* Campaigners accuse Government of wasting millions of pounds of taxpayers money after selling at fraction of the price it paid
One of Britain's most historic country mansions has gone on the market for a bargain £2.5 million.
With its own minstrels' gallery, 18th century classical library and vast Italianate gardens, Apethorpe Hall has all the trappings of a palace fit for a king.
But there is just one thing missing that no monarch could live without ... a throne of porcelain and a bath to match.
The princely pile, near Oundle, Northamptonshire, has no bathroom and carries a £100,000-a-year maintenance bill.
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My Comment: I call this a fixer-upper.
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