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Fancy a little place in the country?Well,ifyou’vegot a cool £1.5 million to spend, a stunning apartment at historic BallsParkin Hertfordshirecould be yours


ownshow. Aformerstately homeset in rolling parkland, theGrade IListedBalls Park Estate has nowbeenconverted into arange of luxury homes in a historic setting. The 17th centurymansion, built circa 1648, has nowopened its doors again forthe first timesincethe site wasoriginally acquired morethanten yearsago,withthe first apartmentintheWest Wing released forsalein November.


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If, lIkemost of the Britishpublic youloveaperioddrama,buyingan apartmentatBalls Park near Hertford couldmake you the star of your


BallsParknestlesin63acres of picturesque


Grade II listed parkland,whichfeaturesonthe EnglishHeritageRegisterofHistoricParks and Gardens. During the1880s thehouse waslet to the Faudel-Philips family,who purchased it outright in 1901.In1924, SirBenjaminFaudel-Phillips commissionedthe Scottish architectSir Robert Lorimertoenlarge thehouse,byremovingaseries of service buildings and constructing a newwest wing,mirroringthe form of themansion. In true Downton Abbey style, the house was used as aconvalescenthomeduringthe warandmost recently as ateacher trainingcollege.The estate


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