Own Your Very Own Gothic Mansion!

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Fulham's most unusual building is up for sale

The Castle Club, which is up for sale through estate agents Savills, is easily Fulham's most distinctive building.

The red brick mansion, on the corner of Broomhouse and Daisy Lanes overlooking the Hurlingham Club has a pinnacled tower with a huge oriel window, parapets, gables and a large vaulted central room with stone fireplaces. plus two separate almshouses and a summer house in the garden.

It was built as a school in 1855 by Horace Francis, who worked alongside his brother Frederick on projects such as Christ Church, Lancaster Gate and the Hotel Metropole on Northumberland Avenue.

The building's owner was the Right Honourable Laurence Sulivan of Broom House who named it the Elizabethan School in memory of his late wife Elizabeth. His family's coat of arms can still be seen on the external walls.

The Castle Club was Grade II listed in 1970 and in recent years has been owned by the council and run as a youth club. But the cost of the repairs needed to maintain the place, especially the roof, convinced the council it was time to sell, with the promise that profits from the sale would reduce the council's debt, thus benefiting local people.

The decision was controversial with some people angry that the young people who used the youth club were being moved elsewhere, but the Victorian Society was enthusiastic. "The Castle Club is an impressive building by a notable Victorian architect. In the right hands, it could be a real asset but, as with all historic buildings, it needs understanding and care if it is to survive long-term. We hope a sympathetic buyer comes forward," says the society's Heloise Brown.

Savills is seeking a single residential owner for the property, which comes complete with two a roomy aparetment at the top of the tower, two separate almshouses and a summer house in the half acre garden. It also comes with planning permission for development of the basement and a conservatory which will increase its overall size to 10,000 square feet.

The price is of owning your own mansion is £3,750

(The Elizabethan School) the family coat of arms can be seen on the external walls. , the Castle Club is a highly decorative building on a prominent corner site. Grade II-listed since 1970, it has been owned by the Council for some years. Now the Victorian Society hopes it could make an unconventional home for an architecture enthusiast or a base for an organisation which could use and cherish the building as it deserves.

handling the sale of the Castle in Broomhouse Lane, Fulham's most distinctive Victorian building.

The red brick mansion, complete with gables, , with gabling, with its tower, parapets. Situated at the junction of Broomhouse Lane and Daisy Lane and overlooking the open spaces of the Hurlingham Club.
It is built of red brick, with Bath stone for quoins and dressings. Step gabling
and embattled parapet work have been freely adopted. From the centre rises the pinnacled tower featuring a striking oriel window of important dimensions.
The upper portion of the tower contains a roomy apartment with a roof of open timbers. The property comprises at the centre a large vaulted room with stone
fire place and stuccoed walls, the stucco being pointed to represent ashlar work in regular courses. There are two almshouses to one end of the building and a
“summer house” in the garden. 5,425 sq ft (504 sq m) for the main building. Planning permission has been granted for the development of the basement together
with lightwells, plus a conservatory extension which will increase the overall square footage to approximately 10,000 sq ft. There is also permission to relocate
the summer house and alter to create a new garage/single studio as well as off street parking

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April 8, 2009