Country Life
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It was just a couple of months ago that
Country Life’s culture columnist Athena lamented the plight of Kinmel Hall, a magnificent country house near Abergele, Denbighshire, a few miles inland from the beautiful coast of North Wales.
‘Kinmel Hall is one of Britain’s great Victorian trophy houses, offering a taste of France in North Wales,’ she wrote of the place that is now up for auction with a £750,000 guide price.
Even the fountain will need work. Kinmel Hall, Denbighshire.
‘Remodelled by W. E. Nesfield in the 1870s, it is faced in the same glowing red brick and creamy stone as Louis XIII’s original hunting lodge at Versailles and the steep roofs and soaring chimneys create a festive silhouette as rich as any châteaux on the Loire.’