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    Sleeping beauties

    Sep 15, 2021 4 minutes
    Penny Churchill

    COUNTRY houses that have been owned by successive generations of the same family usually have fascinating tales to tell: Woodside near Frant, East Sussex, is no exception. For sale on the open market for the first time in 90 years, at a guide price of £5.5 million through Savills Country Department (020–7409 5945), Woodside is not only a grand Georgian house set in 35 acres of picturesque gardens and grounds, a rarity in this part of the world, but is a grand Georgian house that is unlisted, which is even rarer.

    Originally called Delvideer, the house was built in 1832 for Capt George Lewis Minet, who died in 1837. The name Woodside probably relates to its proximity to what was once

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