House to rent in Rochdale... for £20,000 per month!

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Watergrove Manor

Watergrove Manor, formerly the Filter House at Watergrove Treatment Works, is on the market for rent at a staggering £20,000 per calendar month.

The agents, Jordan Fishwick of Wilmslow, describe the property as: "one of the finest country residences in the north of England, and is set within Watergrove Country Park encompassing 900 hundred acres of parkland, national walks, riding tracks and including a spectacular reservoir with its own boat club."

The Fiilter House, built in 1936 to supply Rochdale with drinking water, was converted to a luxury residence in 2008 and boasts two private gated roads, each almost a mile long, a 3.5-acre garden and paddock area. The residence has a stream running through the landscaped gardens and exceptional standards of interior finishing including an indoor pool and jacuzzi, an American-style cinema with powder room and one of the largest entertaining lounges in the country measuring 3,500 square feet with bar area and glazed gallery. The six bedroom property also has within the house a self-contained housekeepers apartment.

The construction of the treatment works allowed up to three million gallons of drinking water from Watergrove reservoir to be treated every day until technological advances led to a new works being constructed in 1992, leaving the Filter House redundant and it lay in a state of decay and disrepair until 2007 when the then owners, United Utilities, placed the property on the market, with local agents Crossley Estates, for £400,000.