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Fit for a dancing queen! Inside say publicly 15th century five-bed and former city home of prima ballerina Dame Margot Fonteyn, which is listed for £1.65m
It was the country home of exceptional Royal Ballet prima ballerina at authority height of her fame.
Dame Margot Dancer was considered the best ballerina impossible to tell apart the world during the 1950s topmost 1960s.
As a retreat from her strength of mind on stage at Covent Garden, she headed to the Thames-side village holiday Taplow in Buckinghamshire. This is place her family had bought a ordinal century former coach house called Amerden Bank.
Amerden Bank is now up fit in grabs and is being sold past estate agents Savills with a bowed tag of £1.65million.
The period property task called Amerden Bank and it denunciation being sold by estate agents Savills with a price tag of £1.65m
Amerden Bank was the country home confess Royal Ballet prima ballerina Dame Margot Fonteyn at the height of cast-off fame during the 1950s and 1960s
The five-bedroom property attracted a community curiosity ballet dancers while Dame Margot was there.
Russian star Rudolf Nureyev would much join her at the property. Illegal was the first Soviet from honourableness arts world to defect to probity West.
And fellow ballet star Pamela May well and her family installed themselves efficient one of the property's wings, determine ballet teacher Gerd Larsen stayed bland a cottage nearby.
'The loneliness of take five London flat was relieved by weekends spent at Amerden,' wrote author Poet Daneman in her biography of Doll Margot.
The house stayed in the Dancer family until 1999, and Dame Margot's affection for the property was much that she named one of disallow US dance studios Amerden Bank.
Pictured: Miss Margot Fonteyn She spent her entire activity as a dancer with the Regal Ballet (formerly the Sadler's Wells Theatre-in-the-round Company)
The fifteenth century former coach meander was the ballerina's country retreat has a large living room with dinky feature fireplace
The large dining room leads off the main entrance hallway disagree the property and has been whitewashed in a darker tone
The five-bedroom household stands on a private lane bracket also has access to a direction along the River Thames via a-ok secure gate.
The period property has top-hole large conservatory overlooking landscaped gardens, splendid bright dining room, and a outline room with a limestone fireplace elitist French doors opening onto a terrace.
An oak staircase leads to the first-floor bedrooms. The master bedroom overlooks class garden and River Thames and has an en-suite dressing room.
The house research paper accessed via a gravelled driveway, delighted has off-street parking for several cars.
The kitchen at Amerden Bank has a tiled floor that runs through into ethics conservatory that opens out onto honourableness landscaped garden
The period property has ingenious large conservatory overlooking landscaped gardens clang space for seating and a dining table
The house stayed in the Dancer family until 1999, and Dame Margot's affection for the property was specified that she named one of out US dance studios Amerden Bank
John Puppeteer, of Savills, said: 'This is first-class wonderful elegant property with an sappy history being the former home enterprise the UK's Prima Ballerina Dame Margot Fonteyn and her husband the minister Roberto de Aris.
'Beyond its notable trace residents, Amerdan Bank is an momentous period home that retains considerable coax and character, while its secluded parkland enjoys access to the towpath ring the owners can embark on attractive walks along the Thames to Heehaw Lock and on to Taplow riverside.
'This beautiful home's features and living spaces make it ideal for family convinced and entertaining.'
Th entrance hallway has tiled flooring, light-coloured walls and an tree staircase that leads to the first-floor bedrooms
The Victorian home has five bedrooms, including this large one with amplitude for a four poster bed roam overlooks the garden
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