Ashley House sure to make waves among prospective purchasers

SOME houses are ready to move into and just ‘hang up you hat,’ as auctioneers are fond of saying. But, how about a home where you get to hang up all of your clothes, don a pair of togs, and dive right on in?

With all the rain of the past month many houses have the equivalent of a swimming pool in their back gardens. Ashley House, however, has the genuine thing.

Named after the character Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard) in Gone with the Wind, it has had an enclosed swimming pool in its back garden since the 1970s when it was the height of fashion, and popular with every local child within a wide radius.