Two properties on Easton Lodge estate — where H. G. Wells lived — are for sale together after a century

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Price desc Price asc Most recent first Warwick Lodge is a Jacobean-style country house with grand Victorian Gothic architecture and elegant period detailing. The author who penned over 100 novels in his lifetime, including The War of the Worlds and The Invisible Man, spent the third chapter of his career writing about politics, history and social reform. (Herbert George) Wells pictured in 1937, before giving a speech to the British Association.

How it works

• However, her lavish lifestyle meant she racked up a lot of debt, building a water tower and a stable yard which are still in situ today.
• On the other side of the village, no longer part of the estate following Maynard's sale of land, is a home linked to Wells.
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• Getty Images) In a strange twist, the Grade II-listed entertaining barn on Wells's land and the remaining wing of the original lodge.
• have come up for sale at the same time, under different ownership and a century after Wells closed the book on his life in Little Easton.

What to take from it

Beresfords) The Grade II-listed Wells Court, a three-bedroom home, sits in 4.75 acres with equestrian facilities: six stables, paddocks, tack and feed rooms, outbuildings and a car port and is being sold by owners John and Sally Wilson who no longer need so much space. The village of Little Easton is seven miles east of the market town of Bishop's Stortford and Stansted airport and was once dominated by the Easton Lodge Estate. In the 16th century, Elizabeth I granted politician Henry Maynard 10,000 acres of the estate on which he built an Elizabethan mansion to become Easton Lodge.

Example or evidence

• Savills) Image 1 of 2 View Original Image 2 of 2 View Original Frances 'Daisy' Maynard inherited the estate as a child and went on to marry the 5th Earl of Warwick.
• As the Countess of Warwick she was well-known for her nine-year liaison with Edward, Prince of Wales (Edward VII) and her weekend-long parties.
• Her most famous investment was the commissioning of architect and garden designer Harold Peto to landscape the grounds.
• Redesigned by Harold Peto in 1902, Warwick Lodge comes with more than six acres of them.

Details worth keeping

Two rural homes for sale on the historic Essex estate where H. In fact, she added a stop on the trainline at Canfield for her guests. Her weekend set included George Bernard Shaw, Gustav Holst, A.

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