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A pretty villa that a wealthy widow bequeathed to Benjamin Disraeli before he became Prime Minister is on the market for £1.35m.

Disraeli and his wife Mary Anne developed a decade-long friendship with Sarah Brydges-Willyams after she began writing them letters, believing they might be related because of their shared Sephardic Jewish ancestry.

They visited every summer for the next ten years until she died in 1863, when she bequeathed her Torquay home, Mount Braddon, to them.

But the Disraelis never lived in the Devon property and sold it about two years later.

Now it is an impressive seven-bedroom home with modern luxuries as well as original features.