Bidding now open on Pound's House sale

BIDDING opened yesterday for the Pounds House mansion in Plymouth’s Central Park which is being sold off by the city council with a guide price of half a million pounds.

- By ALISON STEPHENSON Local Democracy Reporter

Auctioneers Clive Emson, who are handling the sale, say there has been a “good level of interest” in the 200-year-old three-storey grade II listed villa from prospective buyers locally and further afield and a “good number” attending the five open house viewings.

The online auction began at midday yesterday and ends at 1.40pm tomorrow.

Pounds House was built in 1829 and has been owned by Plymouth City Council since the 1920s but it has been empty for the last seven years.

The council said it could no longer identify a use for it and maintenance costs had rocketed to nearly £500,000 in five years.