http://www.updowncourt.com/

£70m+

Even has a heated driveway!!

 

You can own it if you win the EURO Lottery ............... isn't it going to be a £100 MILLION Rollover??

It wouldn't make you happy!!

Pete

 

Too grand for my likeing..... i prefer something with a homely feel to it... that place is so big it's 'cold'.....

 

Agreed.The house would end up owning you,not the other way round.I mean what do you do in a house.

Sleep
Eat
Shower
Watch tv
Sh*g

How many rooms do you need to do that.

 

Some Pad that

 

I saw that a year or two ago. Still isn't selling I see!!!

Love to be invited along to view the property then turn round to agent and say, "nah, bit poky, not my sort of thing, do you have anything bigger?"

 

I wonder if you could get a car through the front door....





It'd make a nice garage!!!

 

Suana was far to small, i'll just have to keep searching,lol.

Mac

 

Jesus Christ, I know jealousy is a bad thing but I just can't help it.

Ba$t@rds

 

it would take the missus an age to hoover, dust and mop. Not a bad thing really as that would keep her out of my hair for a week or two!

 

If I was going to sink tens of millions into a house, I'd have it built to spec!

 

of the houses on the portfolio

most where kensington or chelsea, and had very little in the way of land..

the one i liked was the one that backed onto the 14th fairway at wentworth

£15mill if i recall, but a bit too modern for me


Mart

(i,d like a castle or a very big old priory type house)

 

Commentry by a Des Lyneham sound-a-like.

 

I must admit I did fancy a nice pied a terre near the airport

 

The swimming pools, bowling alley etc would be fun, though Wonder how much it would cost just to pay the bills and maintain the place - probably would finish off your euro-millions quite enough . . . .

 

Why do you think I'm still trying to sell it Ooops

 

To have this as a weekend retreat would simply requires a little corruption, a few back handers and being in the right place at the end of communist rule.......

 

Bulldoze the whole thing, return it to good farm ground.
Make a nice pasture also.
At that price I could buy an agricultural kingdom in California.

 

My company was called in to do the mechanicals on the swimming pools (5 Number) and the spas. It's a very grand place, but it's all just a mess of ideas. I'd rather have a 5 million pound house the way I like it.

I was actually in the west wing indoor pool testing the jet stream when a 'potential' buyer was looking round. A russian/chinese/mongolian looking guy with some big *** **** bodyguards and a entourage of mercs and bentleys.

 

Around £250,000 a year to run the 5 boilers, mind you I think that does the swimming pools as well
Cheers
Colin

 

A couple of the pools have electric heaters, so they'll be more...I know the infinity pool does on the roof

Estimated figure for services for a year was £1,000,000.

A couple of pictures from during construction....even some of the plant rooms are marble. The driveway is heated too.

West Wing Indoor - http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/5087/dscf09452xm.jpg

Black Marble Plant Room - http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/5804/dscf09554ka.jpg

Infinity Pool - http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/2185/dscf09646mr.jpg

 

They have had an offer for 50 million but it cost that to build

chop

 

and the rest.

 

Dalai Lama?

 

...I don't think so...he looked more of a gangster triad type guy

 

Awesome

 

Go past it very morning on the way to work. I've watched it being built over the last few years. Too grand and gawdy IMHO, although the gardens look nice. One of the Arab Sheiks has a property a couple of miles away, sapphires in the cold taps, rubys in the hot ones. Plumber mate who worked on the install told me that. First time I saw it from the road I was very impressed. Until I was told i was looking at the servants quarters, the main house was a little further back!

Much nicer properties that Updown just down the road, and much cheaper as well, if you can call £1,000,000 to £4,000,000 million cheap.

 

@the bowling alley!

 

the bowling alley is nice..and the squash court...I may have some piccys somehwere, will have a look.

 

WTF - WHY? - who built it? and why are they selling it?

Someone been watching 'Beeny' (.)(.) on the telly and thought they could turn a coupla grand quick

Seems mental to build a house like that to sell......