The 350-year-old Shawford Park property lately made a cameo on season six of hit TV Showtime present Billions because the nation house of hedge fund billionaire Bobby Axelrod, performed by actor Damian Lewis.

The property, positioned within the English countryside of Hampshire within the U.Okay., is a Grade II-listed house that lately hit the marketplace for $17.5 million. The property spans greater than 59 acres and is ensconced by pure lush forest, manicured landscaping, and chalk streams. So far as luxurious English estates go, Shawford Park is sort of grand. There’s a 15,500-square-foot most important residence with ten bedrooms and 7 loos.

There are a lot of conventional options within the house, together with wooden paneling, carved fireplaces, elaborate cornices, classic porcelain bathtubs, plaster friezes, nonetheless trendy facilities like a brand new kitchen with high-end home equipment, up to date plumbing, and walk-in marble showers have been added. Interiors are shiny and stylish with massive home windows that allow in loads of pure gentle. Lots of the rooms additionally open on to outside terraces and patios that overlook the beautiful gardens within the yard. Exterior, there are various al fresco eating areas and locations to take a seat and benefit from the river and surrounding nature.

There are seven reception rooms, together with a galleried reception corridor, drawing and ballroom, library, examine, music/sitting room, two eating rooms, and a household kitchen and breakfast room. Outbuildings embrace a self-contained employees annex, a storage, greenhouse, and backyard storage sheds. The landscaping was designed by Kim Wilkie, one of many U.Okay.’s most revered panorama architects and options formal and casual gardens, in addition to many acres of parkland. There’s a vegetable backyard with raised beds, a chopping backyard, flower beds, and extra. The gardens are really a murals. There’s additionally a swimming pool that’s in want of restoration. There are additionally tennis and squash courts with benches and a wine cellar within the basement.

Shawford Park is surrounded by River Itchen and is nice for clear chalk stream fishing. The streams have trout and salmon. Whether or not you’re an avid fisherman or just wish to take pleasure in being by the water, there are various tranquil pavilions alongside the effervescent stream.

The property’s historical past goes way back to the Sixteenth century when it was owned by Sir Henry Mildmay, who’s finest identified for the half he performed within the trial of King Charles I. He was later exiled for his involvement and the property was handed to his son, Henry Mildmay, Excessive Sheriff of Nottingham. It was then purchased within the mid-1800s by Common Frederick CB of The East India Firm. Within the early 1900s, architect Herbert Jewell made some important renovations, together with an addition to the formal entrance, a paved forecourt, the ballroom, and arcaded cloisters. He additionally excavated the unique sunken backyard, which, based on Savills, is claimed to have Elizabethan or Medieval origins.

Over time, it was owned by 4 different people and is now prepared for its subsequent chapter. The house is listed by Savills U.Okay.