The former La Grande Lande Private Residential Home has been redeveloped as a property of multiple occupancy and is now up for sale for £2,650,000.
It used to offer 15 rooms for residential care in a rural setting, near St Saviour’s Church, but it closed in the immediate post-covid era.
The former owner had looked to extend its offering, with Savills previously marketing the site with ‘historic permissions to create further rooms for residents and staff accommodation to provide a total of 26 rooms’.
The current owner of the facility – who paid just over £1million for it in March last year -instead applied for, and received, planning permission for a change of use so that the buildings could be used as a ‘premises in multiple occupation’ offering accommodation for 30 people sharing two to a room.
That work has now been completed and Swoffers is advertising the property for sale as a local market HMO with 15 ensuite rooms, two kitchens and breakfast room, a communal sitting room, and a laundry, with gardens and an agricultural field.
It also comes with some German Occupation era tunnels.
La Grande Lande is immediately adjacent to St Saviour’s Parish Church.
The site includes ownership of the tunnels that run beneath the church that were built during the Second World War.
They are part of a network of tunnels built by slave workers at the behest of the German occupying forces.
The tunnels which start in the grounds of La Grande Lande extend beneath the church.
They were used for ammunition storage during the Occupation, and remained open to the public until they were closed for safety reasons in the 1990s.
