I’ll Take This: House in a Ballroom!

This was once the ballroom of a mansion Somerset, England, and its dissection into a four-bed home has left the drama of its dimensions undiminished.

The open-plan living floor is topped by an elaborately moulded glass ceiling worthy of a Victorian railway terminus;

lavishly proportioned windows light the orangery, study and library; and half an acre of formally landscaped gardens extend into woodland.
It’s a fascinating piece of property and is a good example of a well-done conversion of a historic building.  Yours for £515,000. HERE.

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Fortified

How cool is this? It’s called Golden Hill Fort and is on the Isle of Wight in England.

This Victorian fort was built to counter possible attack from across the channel (aka France) but has now been converted into 18 luxury houses priced from £375,000 to £1m.  There is a communal garden on the top of the fort, with views across countryside to the Solent. The houses will have a very long leasehold - expected to be 999 years.Amazingly, the building was converted into an industrial area and used until the 1980s, and then was abandoned.

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