To buy a house for £5 million, you'd expect nothing short of the Sistine Chapel inside – and with this 10-bedroom property, you'd be pretty close.

The detached country house, Milgate Park in Bearsted, near Maidstone, comes with ornate frescos on the staircase and ceiling above the stairs which have been preserved through the centuries.

It is Grade I-listed and was once owned by an Elizabethan knight.

The grand house sits on its own private road around a mile from the centre of Bearsted.

Its history can be traced back to the 1300s, as it has been owned by two Knights of the Royal Court – the first, Sir Thomas Fludd, was Elizabeth I's Treasurer of War, while the second, Sir William Cage was one of the leaders of the Royalist cavalcade in 1660.

By 1902, Walter Fremlin, whose brothers Ralph and Richard ran the Kent-based brewery, owned it.

Fast forward to the 1970s and it was in the hands of the heiress to Guinness, Lady Caroline Blackwood and her Pulitzer Prize-winning husband, poet Robert Lowell.

He even wrote about it in his poem Fall Weekend at Milgate. Jane Austen also wrote about it in her letters.

On the market with Strutt & Parker agents, the country house has five reception rooms and five bathrooms, a swimming pool and tennis court, lake and outbuildings, including a garden pavilion.

It sits in 5.4 acres.

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