Hope William Wordsworth's Ambleside home will go to 'best bidder'
Mr Wordsworth said the Grade I listed house, which has a library and five acres (two hectares) of grounds would remain open for the 2025 wedding and event season while it was on the market. The poet never owned Rydal Mount, but designed the gardens.Mr Wordsworth said his grandmother bought the house in 1969 and he had known the house his "entire life".
He also said it had been a difficult decision to sell up, but he and his brother lived too far away to keep running it."We have a lot of great staff and we need a lot of staff, but it's just getting harder to logistically run it," he said."My grandmother was actually the first Wordsworth to own the house, it's amazing and I've known it all my life. "If I had a magic wand and if I'm honest, I would love it to remain open in some form."It's got the most incredible garden which I adore and the house is a haven of calmness and literary inspiration."
It was the third Lake District house Wordsworth lived in and he remained there for 37 years. For the last five decades the family has kept Rydal Mount open to the public for 10 months a year. Mr Wordsworth added: "My brother and I are of the opinion that we want to sell it to whoever will be the best guardian of the house for the future, because it has been very important in our lives."We want it to continue being important in other people's lives so it's going to the best bidder, not the highest."
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