Any 19th - C manor house on an impeccably landscape patch of English countryside has the potentiality to palpate like something out of aJane Austennovel . But Steventon House boasts more than aesthetic latitude to the configurations in Austen ’s work : She herself spend more than half her life on the property .
Technically , it ’s not the same sixteenth - century social organization in which Austen once lived with her family . Her parentsmovedto Steventon , Hampshire , in 1771 , so her father , George Austen , could serve as the village rector . They took up residence in a houseownedby a cousin-german , Thomas Knight , and remained there until relocate to Bath after George ’s retreat in 1800 . Jane wasbornin 1775 , meaning she dwell in the Steventon parsonage for about 25 years — during which time shepennedthe first drafts ofPride and Prejudice , Sense and Sensibility , andNorthanger Abbey .
“ This was the cradle of her genius , ” her nephew , James Edward Austen - Leigh , wroteof the estate inA Memoir of Jane Austen .
Knight result the property to Jane ’s brother , Edward , who crush the original theater and constructed a raw one in the 1820s . AsArtnet News reports , that ’s Steventon House as it stands today — and it ’s currently on the market for roughly $ 10.2 million .
A strong connection with one of the most belovedauthorsof all sentence is n’t the land ’s only selling point . Steventon House itself has six bedrooms , four bathrooms , a temperature - controlled wine root cellar , four reception rooms , and a kitchen island that would make Nancy Meyers gallant . The 52 - Akko property also plays host to the two - bedroom Clover Cottage ; a two - auto service department that also hold a nurseryman ’s workshop and additional storage space ; a walled garden ; a pool ; and a tennis royal court . About a mile away isSt . Nicholas Church , the same 13th - century construction where the Austens worship .
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