You may presently purchase the almost 200-room abandoned estate known as “Welsh Versailles” for £750,000.Prior to being put up for sale a week ago, the 173-year-old Kinmel Hall estate in Abergele, Conwy, North Wales, was “left to rot.”The 500-foot-long home was put up for an outrageous £15 million more than ten years ago, during the height of the real estate boom.
The Friends of Kinmel Hall advocacy group has joined to the battle to protect the Grade I-listed hall by taking the lead.The house is surrounded by eighteen acres of walled gardens, and Queen Victoria visited it often. It was just recently put up for sale by the real estate company Allsop.
The impressive Kinmel Hall, which boasts over 200 rooms and is set within 18 acres of walled grounds, was previously visited by Queen Victoria.Sadly, water has leaked into the 80,000 square foot building, requiring a tens of millions of dollars’ worth of renovations to the whole estate.Every year, the Victorian Society lists the property as one of the most endangered buildings. The residence has drawn accolades from historians for bearing a strong similarity to the 17th-century Palace of Versaille, the residence of King Louis XIV of France.A London auction by Allsop and Carter Jonas is scheduled on May 13th, with a guide price of just £750,000, or around the price of an apartment in the city.In 2011 it was bought for £1.45 million by a company based in the British Virgin Islands called Acer Properties Limited.
Designed by renowned Victorian architect William E. Nesfield, it is a singular example of a calendar home with 365 windows, 122 rooms, and 12 entrances.With a window for each day of the year and an entrance for each month, we can only hope that cleaning won’t take a complete year.The historic pad in Abergele, Conwy, North Wales, was originally intended to be converted into a hotel, despite being hailed as one of the most beautiful houses in the country. Sadly, those plans did not work out as planned.
