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Historic mansion which inspired Jane Austen's Mansfield Park is crumbling away after being left to rot for 100 years - as campaign to rescue it has failed as the land is owned by offshore company listed in the British Virgin Islands

January 3, 2024

The neo-classical Piercefield House is believed to have inspired poets, authors, and artists such as William Wordsworth, Jane Austen and JW Turner.

Source: dailymail.co.uk

September 16, 2023

Piercefield House, a Grade II-listed mansion that may have been the prototype for Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park, is now ‘seriously distressed’

Source: theguardian.com