Look what £2 million can buy you in Shropshire
In London £2 million might get you a three-bedroom flat in Chelsea or a two-bedroom mews house in Bloomsbury, but here in Shropshire it will buy you a spacious country estate.
Brook House in Claverley is one of the most spectacular properties to have come onto the market in recent years – and it comes with a price tag to match.
Built shortly before the Second World War, this distinctive country house stands at the end of a long sweeping drive in magnificent gardens and grounds that extend to around 48 acres.
Brook House comes with eight bedrooms, two bathrooms in addition to the en-suites, garaging, carports and even an hanger and pad for your helicopter.
Needless to say, the bespoke kitchen is fitted with a Shropshire-built AGA cooker – and there is a catering kitchen too, also equipped with an AGA.
The house was originally built in 1937 for Paul Gibbons, a member of the lockmaking family that can trace its business roots in Wolverhampton back to 1670.
With impressive electronic gates, a cobbled courtyard, leaded windows and huge arched oak doors the house was constructed to exacting standards and decorated in the Arts & Crafts style. The private parkland also has stables, garaging, and a range of extensive and versatile outbuildings.
It was clearly built to impress and any owner, standing on the huge terrace, is still monarch of all they survey.
And, if the prospective buyer still has around £500,000 left over, there is a three-bedroomed cottage and another 40 acres available 'by separate negotiations' through the estate agents, Peter James Property.