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A historic country manor once owned by writer JB Priestley is on the market for £3m.<br />
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The An Inspector Calls author lived at the property in the 1930s and penned his autobiographical work Rain Upon Godshill (1939) in the study he had built there.<br />
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Billingham Manor has a rich history dating back to the Domesday Book and had links to smugglers in the 17th century.<br />
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The Grade II* Listed six-bedroom property on the Isle of Wight, which also has a detached cottage, farm buildings and 130 acres of land, is now being sold with estate agents BCM.<br />
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The estate dates back to the Domesday Book and was held by Williams Fitz Stur in 1085. The current building was remodelled in about 1730 by politician Edward Worsley.