Alice in Wonderland author’s Ripon Home Up for sale for £ 1.6m

A house in North Yorkshire, which was once the home of Ellis in Wonderland writer Lewis Carol, has gone for sale for £ 1.6m.

Ripon Old Hall, a grade II, listed the Georgian Town House on the high St. Agnesgate at the center of Ripon, built in the 18th century and Carol lived as a young man in the 1850s when his father was a canon of a Cathedral.

David Vinpeni of the Ripon Civic Society stated that the house, three reception rooms, six bedrooms, three bathrooms and gardens with private walls, were “very important”.

“This is one of the most historical homes in Ripon. We know it was built in 1738 and was converted to the mid -19th century, but it is something very good interiors,” he explained.

“It has some very good plasterwork, which includes a large roof with the decision of Paris from ancient history.”

Ripon Civic Society’s co -head Mr. Vinapeni said that Lewis Carol – Charles Lutwiz Dodson’s name was a regular resident at home for many years.

He said, “His father was Arcadekan of Richmond, which meant that he was a canon at the residence in the cathedral for three months every year, so he had to turn on the services and had to do the services,” he said.

“His family lived in the old hall for three months of the year between 1852 and 1858, so the young Charles came to Ripon’s house when he was in the university, and then later when he was actually working in Oxford.”

Mr. Vinpeni reported that when Carroll’s Ellis in Wonderland was published in 1865, a few years after his time in Ripon, it was believed that some aspects of the very preferred book could be inspired during that period spent in Yorkshire.

“We feel that he was inspired by some carvings of cathedral, cheshere cats and rabbits, going down from the rabbit hole in the cathedral,” he said.

“He also wrote poems for the children of Ripon’s bishop, while he was there.”

Michael Godwin, 61, who currently owns Ripon Old Hall, lives in property for 15 years, but he said he was selling the house to downsize.

Mr. Godwin said that when he first visited the house, it was a matter of love at first sight.

“I used to live in a manor house in rural areas earlier. I sold it and I was looking for somewhere to buy,” he said.

“I saw it online and it created some interest, but I was not to see it. Then one day I just thought, ‘Oh I have got to see that house’.

“As soon as he opened the front door, within two seconds, I looked at the Georgian characteristics and the ladder and I thought, ‘Yes, I will have it’.”

Mr. Godwin, who runs an access platform company, said that when he bought it, he knew about the historical connections of the house.

He said, “There is a blue plaque on the outside. The agent showed me at the time that it was said that there was a white panel bedroom that he believed that Louis Carol was,” he said.

“It was clearly an alternative place when it was built, being near the cathedral.

“This is just a stunning house, but I have enjoyed it for 15 years and now is time for someone else to enjoy it.”