£15m hunting lodge goes on the market... but you may need a bit of extra cash to convert it from an office to a home

• The 19th century New Lodge has a £15 million price tag 
• Estate agent Savills hopes it will be converted into a family home
• The neo-gothic former hunting lodge  was favoured by Queen Victoria
• It currently holds 30 offices but leases end in 2017

 ‘It would be wonderful to see it transformed back into a magnificent British home.’

Queen Victoria and her children were regular visitors to the lodge and planted the Wellingtonia trees that line the driveway and it was used in the Second World War as accommodation for refugees.

After the war it became a Barnardo’ orphanage before becoming the British Railways School of Transport in the 1950s.

In 1972 New Lodge appeared in the Hammer House of Horror classic ‘Asylum’ starring Robert Powell, Peter Cushin and Brit Ekland.

More recently, the estate has been used as office accommodation, first in 1972 as the headquarters for Barbour Index and after considerable refurbishment in 2004 as independent business suites owned by Marchday Group Plc.