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Ingress Abbey, Dartford, Kent
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2 Bed Apartment £252,950
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Needham Hall
Spath Road
Didsbury
Manchester, M20 2TU
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3 Bed House £319,950
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Didsbury Gate
Nell Lane
West Didsbury
Manchester, M20 2LR
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2 Bed Apartment £196,950
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Read Mills
King Street
Norwich
Norfolk, NR1 2BU
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Few challenges for the PJ Livesey Group have equalled that of restoring Ingress Abbey on the River Thames. Constructed in 1833 using the stones from John Rennie's Old London Bridge, which appealed to the owner James Harmer's romantic antiquarian tendencies. Harmer commissioned architect Charles Moreing to create as his home a Tudor Gothic fantasy - an extravaganza of arches, bays and porticos, mullioned and transomed windows, barley-sugar chimneys, battlements and turrets.
Despite becoming a Grade II listed building in 1970 it has twice been threatened with demolition. By the time Crest Homes purchased the Abbey as the centrepiece for its Ingress Abbey riverside development, it had become almost unrecognisable. In 1999, Crest appointed the PJ Livesey Group to rescue the Abbey. It was painstaking work but, when completed, the Abbey once again commanded the waterfront from its parkland setting.
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