Gracious Grade II Georgian home up for sale

A grade II-listed six-bedroom home near Market Drayton has been put up for sale with a price tag of £2.5million – and there have been two viewings already.

Betton House, along with three cottages and various outbuildings, is being put on the market for sale by a widow who wants to downsize.

The Georgian home is set in about 71 acres of landscaped gardens and farm land and boasts a reception hall, drawing room, breakfast room, nursery, utility, pantry and cellar.

The main house has a floor area of about 5,965 sq ft (554 sq m).

There is also a guest suite and stables as well as the three cottages included in the sale which have a combined floor space of 2290 sq ft (214 sq m).

Tony Morris-Eyton from Savills, marketing the house, said it was a wonderful property.

He said: "We expect to get a lot of interest, two viewings were set up immediately and it has just gone on the market this week.

"Our aim is to sell it as a whole with the outbuildings, cottages and land.

"It is the marriage of everything, when you have a house like that with the prime farmland attached too, it is the whole package.

"It is so special."

The property has previously been used as a hunting lodge for the Duke of Sutherland.

It also housed evacuated children during the Second World War and was owned by the Edwards-Heathcote family in the late 1800s.

Katherine Maud Edwards-Heathcote was the mother of Sir Oswald Moseley, the founder of British Union of Fascists, who is thought to have lived there for a time during his childhood.