A GRAND Georgian home is on the brink of changing hands after three decades.

The lavish Rose Place has been lived in for 30 years by a retired chartered surveyor, Phillip Jones, who fell in love with the home after selling it as a trainee.

Mr Jones said: “When I was training many years ago, I saw the property when I was being paid about £600 a year and I thought... one day.

"And I bought it nearly 30 years later. I’d always loved it.

“My three boys grew up here, they all live elsewhere now, which is why I’m selling.”

Mr Jones said: “The gardens and the house have been open for various charities including St Richard’s Hospice and Injured Soldiers Foundation, and events such as the Three Choirs Festival, and Historic Church Council. It’s been open every year for the last eight years.”

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Rose Place, in Claines, was built in the late Georgian era of George III, between 1790 and 1810. It is believed to have been part of the Perdiswell Hall Estate. Perdiswell Hall was demolished in 1950 with exception of the stable and the gate piers. The house is Grade II* listed, one of only two private residences in Worcester to be given the rating.

Mr Jones said Rose Place is unusual because it has a Bath Stone facing. The house has around three acres of landscape gardens and grounds. They have been designed by award winning garden designer David Sartori.

The house has been occupied by, among other people, a man who was a baronet and lived in Eton Square in London. Other occupiers included Edward Fownes Rigdon who lived there from around 1903 until around 1920. He then bought Whittington Hall. Mr Fownes Rigdon was from a well-known family of glove makers in Worcester.

Rose Place was also home to a Mr Sanderson around 1812. He had 10 children.

Mr Jones said: “I bought Rose Place from Maynard Mitchell who was one of the fighter pilots in the second World War during the Battle of Britain. After that he was the director of a family business Mitchells and Butlers.”

Among the many rooms are seven bedrooms and four reception rooms. It is bursting with original character features such as the entrance with its stone flagged floor, and two Ionic columns plus a Grade II Listed coach house, garaging and ancillary outbuildings. The house has been restored by Paul Cook from interior design company Alan Vaughan.