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MENUNSW Properties is predicting that local property prices will rise with the opening of the new Moor Hall restaurant and hotel in Aughton planned for 2016. Moor Hall is a Grade II listed sixteenth century gentry set in five acres of breathtaking gardens and a lake. The house will have a beautiful restaurant with luxury rooms whilst the converted barn will follow later as a contemporary casual dining experience.
NSW Properties is predicting that local property prices will rise with the opening of the new Moor Hall restaurant and hotel in Aughton planned for 2016. Moor Hall is a Grade II listed sixteenth century gentry set in five acres of breathtaking gardens and a lake. The house will have a beautiful restaurant with luxury rooms whilst the converted barn will follow later as a contemporary casual dining experience.
Property prices are known to rise in areas where top quality restaurants are opened. When well known Devon Michelin-starred chef Shaun Hill moved to Ludlow and opened The Merchants House, which was listed in the top 20 restaurants in the world, it elevated Ludlow into a destination for those wanting the foodie good life, and house prices moved up as a result. And in Cartmel, a town previously popular with walkers but otherwise little known outside of the Lake District, the establishment of the now two Michelin stars L’Enclume, which was voted Britain’s best restaurant in the last three editions of the Good Food Guide has resulted in other foodie enterprises moving in, plus an influx of second homes and visitors, leading to an increase in housing demand as well as a 5% increase in prices over the last year.
This pattern is repeated in Bray in Berkshire, famed for its six Michelin stars, three each for the Roux Brothers’ Waterside Inn and Heston Blumenthal’s Fat Duck. When Blumenthal won three Michelin stars for the first time in 2004, Bray house prices rose around 15 per cent in just one year. In the past year alone, the village has seen average house price rises of no less than 14 per cent according to Zoopla.
And of course there’s Padstow. The Cornish port may have ‘only’ one Michelin star – for Paul Ainsworth’s Number 6 restaurant – but the empire built up by Rick Stein has turned this modest fishing village into one of the west country’s most expensive places to live. It has only 3,000 permanent residents yet four restaurants in the 2015 Good Food Guide. two of the four are owned by Rick Stein who in addition has two other eateries, a pub, four shops, a cookery school and several places offering accommodation. House prices are soaring – two-bed apartments start at about £300,000.
The Moor Hall site was acquired by Andy and Tracey Bell together with friend, business partner and soon to be Chef Patron Mark Birchall, who was most recently the Executive Chef of the two Michelin Star L’Enclume restaurant in Cartmel. Mark was born in Chorley, trained at Runshaw College, and began his career working at The Walnut Tree Inn, Abergavenny with Franco Taruschio and then at Northcote, Langho with Nigel Haworth. He also worked at El Celler de Can Roca, Girona, a 3 Michelin Star Restaurant owned by the Roca Brothers, twice voted the world’s best restaurant.
Mark joined L’Enclume in 2006, where he helped guide the team to five AA Rosettes, two Michelin stars and the UK’s best restaurant in the Good Food Guide with a full 10/10 rating. He was named Cumbria Chef of the Year in 2014.
So with rising star, Mark Birchall at the culinary helm of Moor Hall perhaps Aughton and its surrounding areas will become the next Cartmel, Bray or Padstow?
