If walls could talk, Leacon Hall would have stories. Smuggling. Literary salons. A woman who told the British Army to shove off. And now, this remarkably well-preserved 18th-century Queen Anne estate in Kent, listed for £2.95 million (or about ), seeks a new châtelain to build upon its creative legacy.

Built in 1708 by the so-called “gentleman farmer” Thomas Kenneth Hodges (who may or may not have funded it with bootlegged French brandy), the stately red brick house is Grade II* listed and was once described by the late, heavyweight architectural historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsner as “an almost perfect Queen Anne house.” And it’s not hard to see why.

Perched on a hill overlooking Romney Marsh, Leacon Hall is all symmetry and sash windows—plus a trailing wisteria that looks like it belongs o

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