Elmore Court

Season 1, Episode 2 of Country House Rescue featured Elmore Court ~ an estate worth 25,000,000 pounds. 36-year-old Anselm Guise had just inherited it, when his uncle died very suddenly. Anselm was a DJ in London, and suddenly was the owner of the 1,200 acre estate, which has been in his family since 1262. Unfortunately, Anselm was quite immature and basically just liked to party and do whatever he wanted, and when his uncle was alive, he didn't believe Anselm was capable of keeping Elmore Court maintained. So, Anselm wanted to prove him wrong, but was having a hard time since it would cost 40,000 pounds per year to maintain; and there was no money at all for the repairs and redecorating that needed to be done inside and out. In came Ruth Watson (the host of the show) to share her ideas of how to save the estate and make money to keep it maintained throughout the years.
Anselm's idea was to turn the main mansion into a cooking school. Ruth actually liked this idea, and they decided to go with it. Instead of turning the coach house into rooms for people to stay, they just used some of the 18 bedrooms inside the mansion. They had to completely re-do the old kitchens, and to do that, they raised money by bringing things from around the house to auction. In the end, the kitchen conversion was successful, the rooms were neatly made into guest rooms, and the cooking school trial was a complete success! So it looks like Elmore Court will survive!

Here are the screen shots I took throughout the show...

(it has 16 tenanted cottages, and 6 working farms, 

besides the main house)