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As country houses in the UK go, the Grade I-listed Aynhoe Park in Oxfordshire looks every inch the stately Palladian mansion from the outside. Take a stroll within, however, and you’ll be confronted at every corner by sights that, in Lewis Carroll’s words, get curiouser and curiouser.
The family home of James Perkins and his wife Sophie is enchanting, replete as it is with objects that range from the ostentatious to the downright outlandish. Think chairs with antlers, a chest of drawers moulded into a rhinoceros, a lamp made with chocolate resin and ostrich feathers, a model of the 1959 Le Mans-winning Aston Martin DBR1 and even the skull of a triceratops.
Fantastical mansion sale to include triceratops head and a flying giraffe The ‘coolest house in Britain’ is like a museum crossed with the Chronicles of Narnia
Sat, Jan 2, 2021, 06:00 Updated: Mon, Jan 4, 2021, 14:24 Elizabeth Birdthistle
It has been dubbed the coolest house in Britain. Where else would Britpop bad boy Noel Gallagher have held his 50th birthday bash in 2017?
The Netflix Narcos themed gig, where the Oasis frontman and Bono both grinned for a selfie – and the party that Madonna apparently crashed – was held at Aynhoe Park; a renowned venue for fantastical parties and weddings.
The Grade I-listed Georgian mansion is not a hotel; it is however, a spectacular private house embodying the best of British eccentricity.