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Jan
Pineheath: famous Harrogate mansion and land being sold separately
One of Harrogate’s best-known homes has been listed for for sale again.
Pineheath, on Cornwall Road, was put on the market for offers in excess of £3.1. million in June last year.
It followed an unsuccessful stint at auction in 2023, when the guide price was set at £3.5 million.
Now the 40-room home and a plot of land - part of its former garden - off Rutland Drive have been listed for sale separately.
The house has a guide price of £1.65 million, whilst the plot of land is on for £1.2 million.
Therefore anyone wishing to buy the land and the house would be asked to pay £2.85 million.
Agent Carter Jonas said the house has been empty for a number of years and is protected by security hoardings due to its poor condition.
The house also comes with planning consent to convert it into 10 flats, the listing adds.
Rutland Drive plot.
Land sale
The plot of land (pictured above) extends to about half an acre and is accessed via Rutland Drive.
Carter Jonas said it is “arguably one of the last and best potential building plots in the Duchy area”.
The listing adds:
A fantastic opportunity to purchase a development site extending to about half an acre.
This excellent level site is accessed off Rutland Drive and had planning consent granted for a substantial detached property in December 2017 – decision notice 17/04372/FUL – the consent lapsed in 2020.
More recently, a planning application has been submitted seeking consent for a large, detached family house on the site. The application is currently in the process of being validated.
Pineheath history
From 1927, Pineheath was home to Sir Dhunjibhoy Bomanji, a wealthy shipping magnate who divided his time between India, Windsor and Harrogate.
He was knighted for philanthropy in 1922 after reportedly donating £1 million to the war effort.
The house was said to have originally boasted a full flock of staff, gold-plated taps and even a centrally-heated garage filled with Rolls-Royces.
It was later taken over by his widow, Lady Frainy Bomanji, known affectionately as ‘Lady Harrogate’.
Following the Bomanji’s deaths, Pineheath was then kept alive by their daughter, who died in 2012.
Current owner Jason Shaw bought the property the following year and planned to restore it to its former glory. He was later fined £24,000 for cutting down protected trees outside the home.
His original plans to convert the house into 12 flats and the on-site cottages into two homes were rejected three times as the council felt the proposed houses were too big.
This story has been updated after a previous version did not make clear the house and land were being sold separately.
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