Ingestre Hall is a lovely old Jacobean mansion, now taken over and used for education courses and such.
A spate of such lovely stately homes came on to the market following the Second World War; and, often, as in the case of Ingestre, the local county council would step in to buy the house - to save the property by re-using it.
I don't think any council today, even citing good heritage reasons, would feel it could justify the expense of any similar conservation project.
It is a beautiful place.
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