close
close

“Scandal-on-Sea” hideaway, in which celebrity lovers could once belong to 375,000 pounds

Embedded in a Victorian terrace, it was once the home that would have stayed in the components in a coastal scandal if the newspapers of time got the wind of it.

Now a house on the coast of Norfolk with a unique literary history could be yours after its owners offered it for sale.

While she grows lyrically about the “beautifully presented” property near the beach in Hunstanton, neglecting agents who neglectly mention his other claim to fame.

The property for sale in the Victoria Avenue in Hunstanton (Image: Chris Bishop) For No. 28, the Victoria Avenue, one of the most famous authors in the world of the early 20th century decided to be at home with his pregnant lover so that she could take a discretion.

Neighbors in the northernmost street of the city did not notice who the Adolated man was with a mustache – or in his much younger companion, who was strikingly beautiful, who was wearing a wedding ring and called Ms. West.

Hunstanton was slightly on the track in those days, but far away from the curious London eyes, when the writer called the father of science fiction, who was prepared for the arrival of the love child he had been.

Hg fountain next to the sea

HG Wells, shown in 1920 (Image: George Beresford/Wikipedia) HG Wells and Rebecca West settled in early 1914 – months before the birth of their son Anthony Panther West on August 5 of this year, calm down on the terrace with four bedrooms.

Wells, author of Science Fiction Classics The Time Machine, War of the Worlds and The Invisible Man, was married to his second wife Jane at the time.

But behind a veneer of respectability, the main writer also had a number of affairs before he met the writer and feminist west – born in Cecily Isabel Fairfield, who was his junior in 1913.

Rebecca West (Image: Madame Yelonde/Wikipedia) Wells, who was not present at birth, visited mother and son every day after Anthony's arrival.

In September, he moved west and her young baby to a farmhouse near Brauhing in Essex – a more comfortable 15 miles from the Well's family in Easton.

Read more: Skandal-on-Sea-HG Wells and the secret hiding place of his lover

While the couple returned to Hunstantton with the four -year -old Anthony at the time in 1918, the cracks formed shortly after they packed their buckets and spades.

The couple separated in 1923 after West divorced Wells from his wife and married them.

HG Wells and Rebecca West founded at home in Hunstanton (Image: Chris Bishop) They stayed friends while still married wells with another lover, the travel clerk Odette Keun.

Wells died in 1946 at the age of 79. West died in 1983 at the age of 90.

Her son Anthony West, who died in 1987 at the age of 73, continued to become an author and literary critic.

In 1955 he wrote Heritage – a novel about a boy who is neglected by his famous parents.

Comfortable and spacious

The house is located in the Victoria Avenue in Hunstanton (Image: Chris Bishop)

No. 28 is located on one of the ordinary, ruling paths of the imposing terraces that split off from the main A149 Cromer Road of Sewards.

The bay-fronded plot of land, which was built with brick, called the owners of the owners several times since the owners have changed since Wells and West were returned to their landlady and withdrawn to eatex.

It has now been launched by the Norfolk Agents for £ 375,000.

The spacious interior of the house (Image: Rightmove) They describe it as “beautifully presented” that “provide” spacious and versatile accommodation over both floors “.

“The property was a popular family home,” they add. “In view of the popular location, however, it would also be the perfect weekend or holiday home.

“This fantastic property is moving and it is recommended to appreciate everything that is offered.”

A badge next to the front door of the house – shows the wrong date (Image: Chris Bishop)

Together with four bedrooms with Master En Suite and an open kitchen, the house offers another feature that brings back in the past.

A badge near the front door, which was installed by the Hunstanton Civic Society – with the wrong date – announced: “HG Wells and Rebecca West's son, which was born here in 1913.”

Leave a Comment