Hundreds of people will walk past Errol House every day without giving it so much as a second glance, unaware of the wonders within.

Just nine years ago the 17th century home in Canterbury was extremely rundown and ridden with damp, but now it has a new lease of life - and a £2 million price tag to boot.

Thought to be one of just a handful of Georgian properties left in the city, and containing paintings by a world-famous artist, it has been put on the market by its owners for the seven-figure sum.

This comes nine years after the house in Stour Street was snapped up by London buyers for £675,000.

Bosses from Strutt & Parker, which is advertising the building, describe the site as "important", having been the subject of "major restoration" works.

"Errol House is an exceptional Grade II-listed property," the company said.

"This important house has been the subject of a major restoration by the current owners who have brought it back to life.

"While some of the paintings are Victorian, believed to be by Sidney Cooper, the vendors have commissioned further matching paintings by a local artist to replace those lost in the last century."

Advertising material produced by Strutt & Parker says the six-bedroom home has its own library, and the kitchen is equipped with "secondary servant stairs".

Papers show it also has four reception rooms, a cellar and coach house.

After it was purchased in 2013, developers were given the green light by Canterbury City Council to refurbish the property - which was said to have "serious damp problems" - and demolish outbuildings.

Papers lodged with the local authority noted: "The house is extremely rundown, not having been effectively maintained for more than 30 years.

"The oldest parts of it date back to 1680.

"It is thought this house was at one time associated with Flints Brewery, which was one of several breweries operating within the city in the 19th and 20th centuries.

"It appears to have ceased operating on this site at the end of the 1800s."

Having been occupied by a wholesale grocery merchants in 1940, the house was empty by 1975.

In that year it was squatted in by activists who subsequently formed Canterbury Women's Aid. The group was evicted before the end of 1976.

The coach house was later used as an antique shop by former owner Dr Nan Leith until her death in 2012.