A Grade II listed Georgian building in Doncaster that was once home to Victorian railway promoter and politician Sir Edmund Beckett-Denison is to be auctioned with a guide price of just £200,000 at Strettons’ October sale.
As chairman of the Great Northern Railway, Beckett-Denison successfully lobbied to make Doncaster a key staging post on the fastest railway route from London to the North East and Scotland.
Converted into council offices in the 20th century, Denison House was sold to a private developer in 2013, and in 2015 planning consent was granted to convert the building into 11 apartments. Nonetheless, despite a number of subsequent sales and development plans, the property remains vacant.
Denison House is one of 78 lots to be auctioned at Strettons’ October auction. Also to be included in the sale will be a freehold four-storey former Royal British Legion social club, half a mile from Clapham Junction in London. The premises, which have planning permission for three flats and a D1 community use, are being offered with a guide price of £800,000-£825,000.
The Strettons auction will take place on 28 October at the De Vere Grand Connaught Rooms, Great Queen Street, WC2.
