The eight-bedroomed Grade II listed Georgian manor was once owned by author Evelyn Waugh. It was sold for £3.16m to a mystery buyer on December 15 - above the guide price but below what Mr Madi believes is its true value of £4m. Piers Court was put in the hands of London auctioneers Allsop who offered it for sale with the warning: 'The property is occupied under a Common Law Tenancy at a rate of £250 per annum.' Ms Lawton and Mr Madi were served with a notice to quit on August 19 last year and a copy of the order was pinned to the property's imposing wooden gates. Hoare's Bank in London, which gave him £2.1m to buy Piers Court, called in the loan because of missing repayments. The pair were paying just £5-a-week rent while they set about restoring the property where Waugh wrote Brideshead Revisited.īut Blain, 52, got into financial difficulties after racking up a £1.1m hotel bill while staying at the plush Mandarin Oriental in London's Knightsbridge in 2020, including £30,000 for valet parking and £8,600 for spa treatments and room service. It was Blain's money that bought Piers Court and its 23 acres of grounds in 2018, although Ms Lawton and Mr Madi claim they put £300,000 into the deal. That position has become more complicated after their business partner, former TV executive Jason Blain, was named as a debtor in a bankruptcy petition in the High Court.
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