A luxury home featured in Grand Design’s ‘saddest ever’ episode is being sold as two homes after a £10,000,000 sale missed the deadline. The property took a decade to complete, cost owner Edward Short his marriage and put him in £7million of debt
However, after failing to find a buyer to cough up the huge sum, the home has been split into two, with the main property Cheshil Cliff House listed at £7.5m atThe mansion’s three-bedroom annex, The Eye, which was previously part of the main complex, is now available to purchase on its own, with the listing stating it is ‘available by separate negotiation.’: ‘The sale of Cheshil Cliff House in its entirety is very much on.
‘The sale is being negotiated, but because the potential buyer hasn’t yet signed on the dotted line and an agreed date has passed, the agents have been obliged to offer it to all interested parties again.’ The source explained that Ed would prefer to see it sold as one single property but is ‘keen to see if maybe one of the developments can be sold first in a separate deal to get one off his hands.’‘He is his usual optimistic self and remains confident it won’t be that long before a deal is done and the secret bidder will eventually reach a deal with him,’ they added.last year, Ed said he lost his wife due to the ‘pressure’ his dreams put on her and their kids.
Work on the house set him back £5million, which was double the £2.5million budget he’d anticipated, after originally putting a planning application through in 2011.The dad-of-two later toldWhat’s your favourite Grand Designs episode?‘I didn’t want my wife and girls to be associated with my messed-up dreams.’
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