Clear up the Thriller: Who Will Be the Subsequent Proprietor of This U.Okay. House That Impressed Board Recreation Clue?

It was Colonel Mustard within the research with the candlestick! Any fanatic of the board recreation Clue could have yelled out a variation of that acquainted phrase a minimum of as soon as whereas fixing who murdered Mr. Boddy in his Tudor Mansion. Now hardcore followers may be part of Clue’s (or Cluedo’s) historical past because the property which impressed the murder-mystery board recreation and hosted previous Hollywood icons of the golden age is available on the market with an asking worth beginning at £1 million (or $1.38 million), experiences Mansion World.

Nestled within the village of Rottingdean in Brighton, England, the previous Tudor Shut Resort was as soon as a well-liked vacation spot that was frequently frequented by film stars comparable to Cary Grant and Bette Davis. (A younger Julie Andrews was even rumored to sing there as her mother and father labored on the resort!) It was there the place Anthony and Elva Pratt—who invented the sport, which was initially known as Homicide in Tudor Shut—first hosted murder-mystery events too.

The English Tudor-style mansion was initially constructed within the Twenties as a small growth of seven cottages however was then reimagined because the resort when the properties didn’t promote. Within the Fifties, the spot was transformed into a personal residence. In line with the itemizing, the four-bedroom, two-bathroom house options many areas “splendid for entertaining,” together with a proper reception room with two fireplaces and a bar, and a proper eating room with a skylight above. Different noteworthy highlights of the three,000-square-foot spot are the wood-framed phone sales space that’s now a closet, a country kitchen, a backyard and terrace—and most fittingly, a secret passage.