- By Helen Burchell
- BBC News, Bedfordshire
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The family home where Captain Sir Tom Moore raised millions for NHS charities during the pandemic has been put up for sale for £2.25m.
The house and grounds in Marston Moretaine, in Bedfordshire, became well-known after the Army veteran walked laps around the garden, raising £38m for NHS Charities Together.
He lived there with his daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore and her family.
The Grade II listed property has seven bedrooms and four bathrooms.
In a marketing video posted online, estate agent Hadyn van Weenen said the Old Rectory featured an “iconic and very famous driveway”.
The estate had seven bedrooms, four reception rooms, four bathrooms and a separate coach house, that was being used as a gym but had planning permission to be converted into an annex, the agency said.
The “enclosed and secluded grounds” were set in 3.5 acres, with a pond and “part moat”.
Interested parties would be required to sign a confidentiality agreement prior to viewing, the property agent said.
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Capt Sir Tom was born in Keighley, West Yorkshire, in 1920.
He served in India and Myanmar during World War Two, when it was known as Burma, but at the age of 99 he became an international star by walking laps around his garden.
His 100th birthday on 30 April 2020 was marked with an Royal Air Force flypast, personal birthday greetings from Elizabeth II and the prime minister, and he was made an honorary colonel of the British Army.
Central Bedfordshire Council initially approved plans but later the authority refused revised proposals, which included a spa, after it had already been partly built.
It said the inquiry was amid concerns his family may have profited from using his name.
The foundation said it would “work closely” with the inquiry.
Last year, the family’s lawyer Scott Stemp said the foundation was “unlikely to exist” in the future.
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