The Sale
The historic heart of the estate
This is a rare chance to buy the historic core of a Grade I listed estate: the wing that holds Burley on the Hill's most valuable rooms and its most valuable art.
- Guide price
- £3,900,000
- Method
- Traditional online auction
- Auctioneer
- Moores
- Buyer's fee
- 1.2% (inc. VAT)
- Bedrooms
- 7
- Bathrooms
- 6
- Floor area
- 12,000+ sq ft
- Tenure
- Freehold
- EPC
- Exempt (listed)
- Grounds
- 67 acres
- Council tax
- Band H
What's actually for sale
The reason this address is known at all: the Great Staircase itself, and the baroque murals fixed to its walls and ceiling. Gerard Lanscroon painted them onto the building three centuries ago. They come with the wing rather than as a separate acquisition.
Boundary transcribed from the HM Land Registry title plan (title no. LT280351). The highlighted areas are the Great Stair & Library's plot and its separate garaging plot, shown against the layout of the wider estate.
Property information
The house is freehold and fully maintained by its owners. The common parts of the mansion house, though, including the colonnades, the Cour d'Honneur, the South Terrace, and the ground immediately in front of and behind the Great Stair & Library, are professionally maintained under an annual service charge of approximately £15,000.
- Full address
- The Great Stair and Library, Burley-on-the-Hill, Oakham, Rutland, LE15 7FH
- Services
- Mains electricity, gas, and water
- Drainage
- Private, shared sewerage treatment plant
- Local authority
- Rutland County Council, 01572 722577
- Service charge
- ~£15,000 / year, for the shared mansion grounds
- Agent & solicitor enquiries
- 01572 757979
office@mooresestateagents.com
How this sale works
The Great Stair & Library is being sold by traditional online auction, ending 23 September 2026 at 12:00 BST. Traditional means the exchange is immediate and binding. If the reserve is met when the timer reaches zero, the highest bidder must buy and the seller must sell, with no cooling-off period or further negotiation afterward.
The guide price above signals where bidding is expected to start. Auction guides are typically set below the eventual sale price by design, since their job is to draw bidders in rather than forecast the outcome. The reserve, the minimum the seller will accept, isn't disclosed; it's usually no more than 10% above the guide.
Registration is free and doesn't ask for a deposit upfront. You register, review the legal pack, and arrange viewings first. An ID check and payment or solicitor details only come into it once you're ready to bid. A holding deposit is then charged automatically to the winning bidder's card at the end of the auction. All of this happens on the auctioneer's own platform. The button below goes straight there.