Report by Terence Ryle
A full tank in the Volvo, a couple of tax-deductible nights ahead in a country pub, bidding against locals wanting a souvenir of the big house for pieces needing a little TLC that had been in the same elegant property for a century and more…
The heydays of on-site country house contents sales have been gone these 30 years and more, but the lure of the name remains.