A historic building where Lord of the Rings author JRR Tolkien lived has been put on the market for £1.3 million.
The Business Desk reports that the Dennison Centre, which was a hospital for the recuperation of soldiers after the First World War, is thought to have been where Tolkien began writing his world-famous novels while living there in 1917.
The once privately-owned property, which bears a blue plaque to commemorate its cultural significance, is now owned by the University of Hull and it has just placed it on the market and invited interested parties to have a look around.
Garness Jones, the estate agent managing the sale, said the two-acre site is ‘ideally placed for residential development’, and have placed the property on the market for £1.3 million.
The building has been used as a conference centre, offices, and by international students in recent years.
Paul White, agency director at commercial property specialist Garness Jones, said the university has already had indicative plans prepared which show how the three-storey Dennison Centre could be converted into 15 apartments, while the land has enough space for a further seven detached four-bedroom homes.
The site includes another property that has already been converted into two self-contained flats.
Famed author JRR Tolkien was cared for at the property at age 25 in 1917, when it was the Brooklands Officers Hospital, while he was suffering from trench fever, which he had picked up in France in the Great War.
At the time a still unpublished author, he spent 18 months in East Yorkshire, much of it on the Holderness coastline where soldiers spent hours watching for an invasion from the sea.
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