A 17th-century freehouse and restaurant in a converted mill in Hampshire has been sold for more than £1m off a guide price of £925,000.
Experienced licensees Martin and Margaret Juden are the new owners of Milbury’s in the village of Beauworth, near Winchester, on the edge of the South Downs.
The inn – which has been known in the past as the Hare and Hounds and the Fox and Hounds and has been linked with smuggling – features an unusual man-powered treadmill that lifts water from its 365-foot well.
It is also just 150 yards from the historic Mill Barrow, a Bronze Age cemetery.
The property incorporates an “olde worlde” bar, three restaurant areas that can seat a total of 120 people, two letting bedrooms, and a skittle alley.
The sale was handled by the Reading and Southampton offices of property agent Colliers Robert Barry.
By Angela Frewin