Bridgnorth cottage with cave is an online smash
A Bridgnorth cottage which has its very own cave was one of the most-viewed properties online in 2016.
Rightmove, Britain's biggest property website with about 127 million visits a month, has compiled a list of the top 10 most-viewed homes across its site this year.
Sixth on the list was the Bridgnorth cottage in Railway Street which went up for sale in January for just under £200,000.
It is the creation of Antony Dracup, the home's eccentric former owner who spent years carving out a sandstone cave at the back of the house and integrating it into the main building. The key feature of the property is the 650 square feet cave to the rear, with gothic archways and vaulted pillars.
The bricks for the archways in the cave were built from sand collected from the excavation of the cave.
As well as the cave, it features original paintings by the artist on the walls. The agents said it was "unlike anything else you are likely to see".
Mr Dracup, who died in 2002, became a professional artist in 1963 after giving up a office job for Yale in London. His works are mostly landscapes done in oils and paints – and some of the Bridgnorth countryside that he would be able to visit from his home.
Subsequent owners of the house have kept the property true to Mr Dracup's work, leaving his unique stamp on the building. In recent years it was used as a holiday let.
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Top of the Rightmove list, and the most expensive property, was a £55m, seven-bedroom terrace in Eaton Square in London's Belgravia – a street that is often recorded as having the highest-priced properties in the UK.
Features include a winter garden with retractable glass ceiling.
A mansion in Alderley Edge, Cheshire, was second on the list.
It has a leisure suite with pool, jacuzzi, sauna and gym, as well as a salon and a cinema room.
