Stunning £30m Cheshire estate is up for sale for the first time in its 700 year history

A stunning estate in Cheshire that has heaps of history is on the property market for what is understood to be the first time. Since the early 14th century, the Adlington Hall estate in Macclesfield has been home to generations of the Legh family but after 700 years it is now up for sale with an eye-watering £30 million price tag.

The entire estate is made up of Adlington Hall, six equipped farms, twenty-one residential properties, an events space, a village hall, and a total of 1,922 acres. It is being offered for sale by joint agents Savills and Mark Wiggin Estate Agency with a guide price between £10,000,000 to £30,000,000 as it's also available to buy in up to 25 lots.

Adlington Hall can be traced back to Saxon times when the house was owned by Norman Earls for seven generations until 1221, when it passed to the Crown. Henry III then passed the manor onto Hugh de Corona and, after the marriage of one of his granddaughters to John de Legh of Booth, Adlington Hall became the ancestral home of the Legh family.

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Today, it is the host of many weddings, corporate events, awards ceremonies, photoshoots and filming locations with several Sherlock Holmes episodes having been filmed there.

The Grade I listed house has a rich architectural history with a distinctive Tudor façade to the east and Georgian front to the south.

The Great Hall on the north side was added between 1480 and 1505 and, after two sieges during the Civil War and years of neglect, some restoration work took place in later years.

In 1739, when Charles Legh inherited it, it was transformed from a medium sized Tudor property into a large