A recently closed UK academy is looking for applicants seeking not an education, but an enormous new property.
Following the fresh closure of Abberley Hall School, its grounds and buildings are now available for purchase, the price available upon application, Mansion Global first reported.
Located in Worcester, the approximately 93-acre estate includes an array of amenities worthy of what was, until its closure at the end of the 2022/2023 academic year, a “leading independent preparatory school” and one of the highest-ranked private educations to be gotten in the English countryside, according to press materials provided to The Post by Savills, which holds the listing.
Outside, the grounds include two tennis courts, a heated swimming pool with changing facilities, a climbing wall, a fishing lake and mountain bike trails. There’s also an indoor shooting range and sports hall with a gymnasium, riding stables, multiple flat grass pitches, a stable block, a coach house and a theater.
What’s more, there are 16 residential properties, a yellow sandstone principal hall and a 161-foot-high historically protected clock tower which, during World War II, was used as an observation post to report enemy aircraft targeting Birmingham.
“The availability of the Abberley Hall Estate, which lies within a desirable rural setting with fantastic views over the Worcestershire countryside, presents an exciting and unique opportunity for an occupier, developer or investor to shape its future and continue its legacy,” said Olivia Haslam, the director of Savills Nottingham’s development team who is handling the sale, in a statement. “The site lends itself to a variety of uses, returning it to its original use as a single home is also a possibility.”
Indeed, when Abberley Hall was first constructed in the mid-1800s, it was for residential purposes, namely to replace a former manor house from the 18th century that had fallen into disrepair.
It wasn’t until 1916 that it became a school.
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