PICTURES: Evelyn Waugh's Somerset home up for sale | Chard & Ilminster News
THE Somerset home of writer Evelyn Waugh is up for sale - which a whopping £5.5 million asking price. Combe Florey is a delightful Grade II listed 18th century manor house with an appealing classical facade in the style of James Gibbs. It is believed an earlier Elizabethan house was situated closer to the village church and was pulled down after the Civil War. It is understood to have then been replaced by a new house at the present site. The 17th Century house was extensively remodelled by William Frauncies in 1730. The property was sold to the Perring family in 1799 and sold ag...