Evelyn Waughs mansion for sale.

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Evelyn Waughs house is up for sale. However, you can't view it as current tenants (who pay £250pa) won't let anyone in.

I wonder if it looks like the photos anymore!

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/129582860

@PatriciaHolm another entitled dickhead, who uses every loop hole they can to get their big house/boat/holiday home/extension! I assume he will put his company into liquidation (hence the sale) but as an individual he will refuse to move out! It's the same as people like Katie Price, who go 'bankrupt' but put their millions to their family! Whereas the rest of us mugs pay off our mortgages/credit cards and loans how we should! Should not be allowed!

@bankruptbillionaire he sounds a
Complete arsehole! He should not be allowed to continually do this! Vile!

@ShamedBySiri was the the sad story that was on the news! If so, that man was so selfish... gives me the creeps!

Also technically I don’t think he did write brideshead here, I thought he just constantly left Laura and the kids there and biffed off doing whatever he liked. He got leave of the army during the war to write brideshead. Didn’t he put up in a nice country pub and write it?

really recommend his biography by Philip Rita Konigs husband, and also a book called bright young things about characters who may have inspired some of his earlier work. Also Waughs own men at arms trilogy - so different in style but brilliant.

Utterly bizarre! I wonder who would buy it - can't see inside, can't see if the play has been trashed, or all the fittings ripped out and sold, etc, and the tenant is going to have to be dragged out kicking and screaming.

How on earth do the sitting tenants afford the upkeep? Do you think they are burning the furniture for fuel?

Well if they are only paying £250 pa rent?
What an odd story, something worthy of Waugh himself.

@supertato32 was the the sad story that was on the news! If so, that man was so selfish... gives me the creeps!

@Hungrycaterpillarsmummy
@Soothsayer1

Yes it was all in the news. I can still visualise the last pictures taken at what looked like a happy family and friends BBQ. I wonder if he was planning to do it at that time or maybe he'd had a few drinks, came home, looked at the paperwork and flipped?

Very shocking. My sister didn't really have anything to do with them, didn't like him.

Hopefully even if they have to be dragged out kicking and screaming these tenants aren't the sort to take a "if I can't have it no one will" attitude.
They've probably kept it quite nice inside, sounds like they like gracious living beyond their means.

Reminds me of long ago in my student days, filling up my old mini and eagerly collecting a petrol promotion card thing, top prize a Porsche. The garage attendant grumpily harrumphed and said I would be able afford to fill it up anyway.

He was right of course. ☹️

I bet there's a trail of unpaid local craftspeople who have decorated the house etc.

TV chef Keith Floyd went bankrupt more than once I believe and every time one of his pubs/restaurants went under there were angry unpaid local suppliers. Mum's butcher was one. Mention the name and he got a bit dangerous with his butchers knife

I too wonder whether the tenants can be evicted or not.

If they know how to play the game (sounds like they do) they will be holding out for an offer (££££££) to leave the house.

I may be wrong but it looks like it sold at auction.. auctions.allsop.co.uk/lot-overview/investment-freehold-grade-ii-listed-georgian-manor-house-in-dursley/r221215-220?searchid=p0nYW20cmGYlqJiXysPVb25N3h1hN0k1%2FeuT4htlE2g%3D&idx=0

Nightmare to heat

Oooh. I wonder if getting the tenants out will not the press? Am feeling very nosey about this!

£3,160,000

Guide price was £2 million I think.

So someone isn't worried about getting the tenants out.

And looks like the bank will get their money back and the "owner" may also have made a profit. Happy days.

Oh. Sorry. I misremembered.
They paid £2.9 mill so there won't be any change and maybe some loss after auctioneers fees etc.

More news from the DM.
The tenants are going nowhere.

EXCLUSIVE: Evelyn Waugh fan vows to not move out of writer's mansion
mol.im/a/11545907

A murky tale! I love how she says she has the backing of the Waugh family and this turns out to be short chat on the phone to Waugh's last surviving child who says 'Oh yes, I remember that' and very little more. Not much sympathy for the sitting tenants' position in the comments section, unsurprisingly.

Sounds like the buyer has a while load of trouble on their hands.

What a great story! Thanks all for the updates and share tokens.

Wow 😮 At this bit Bachara and I don't have children so we have considered leaving the house to the Evelyn Waugh Society

I wonder how they thought that was going to be possible. The way the purchase of the house was done originally sounds so strange.

Come now, having to repay a multi-million pound loan to the bank is a mere detail, surely? They are in their 60s. Plenty of time to magic up a way to pay this off in full. How deeply unreasonable of the creditors of their business partner to insist on getting their money back by selling off his one remaining enormous asset.

One of the many details that fascinate me about this story is how he got away with living in a top hotel for eight months without paying his bill. Why didn't they turf him out at an early stage?

Apparently so @Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g they have a home somewhere else in London according to the article