A GOOD many families in Wendover Dean will remember when Mayertorne Manor was a girls school.

The Queen Anne style manor house on London Road was built in the late 1700s. Not surprisingly it’s seen some changes over 200 years

It was a farm in the 1850s. During the Victorian era, it was known at Wendover Dean House.

Half a century later it became a school.

The educational establishment founded by Isobel Fry existed from the early 1900s to the 1960s.

Since then subsequent owners have restored the fabric of the building. The interior now has the grace and elegance that befits its status as an English manor house set in eleven and threequarter acres of parkland.

The rooms are spread over three floors. Among the original features are the sash windows with shutters, window seats, high ceilings, wood panelled walls, stone fireplaces and doors which have been there since the house was built.

There are five bedrooms including a master suite and guest suite each with a dressing room and private bathroom.

There are three principal reception rooms – drawing room, dining room and sitting room – also a study and, on the lower ground floor, a hobby room.

The kitchen/breakfast room is absolutely top drawer. The bespoke units are solid oak painted a colour from the Farrow & Ball chart.

There’s a shelved larder, solid oak butcher’s block, marble work surface as well as a combination of granite and sold oak worktops. There are wine racks, cookbook shelves, a drawer containing a recycling bin, a Butler’s sink and a sink for preparing vegetable.

Mayertorne Manor is for sale at Michael Graham for £2.5 million.