3 bed flat for sale Holloway Drive, Virginia Water, GU25

If you love a little history woven into your everyday life, appreciate beautiful surroundings, enjoy the finer things, or want a luxurious lock up and leave home for frequent travel, this penthouse at Virginia Park is one you are going to fall for.

Virginia Park is no ordinary development. Its story begins in the 1800s with Thomas Holloway, who founded the building alongside Royal Holloway College, now Royal Holloway, University of London. Inspired by his wife Jane, whose initials alongside Thomas’s can still be seen in the ceiling of The Great Hall at Crossland House, Holloway created opportunity where there was none, establishing a university to give women access to higher education at a time when it simply was not permitted. The original building was constructed in the 1880s in striking French Gothic style and later became a hospital before being sensitively restored and converted into one of Surrey’s most prestigious residential estates. As noted in Guy Blythman’s book all about the development, the building was considered one of the most lavish institutions of its kind, with ornate detailing, dramatic proportions and an extraordinary sense of theatre throughout.