Captain Sir Tom Moore‘s home is back on the market after its asking price was slashed by £300,000.
The Grade II-listed mansion in Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire, was the famous setting of the World War Two veteran’s lockdown garden walks where he raised £39million for the NHS charities.
It was originally put on the market for £2.25million in in 2024 but it was later taken down after it failed to attract a buyer.
Now, the seven-bed property is up for sale once again at the reduce price of £1.95million.
The home found itself at the centre of a controversy in 2023 when Captain Tom’s daughter – Hannah Ingram-Moore – was ordered to tear down a £200,000 spa built in the grounds of the property without permission.
While the building was funded by The Captain Tom Foundation and had initially intended to be for the charity – set up by Mrs Ingram-Moore – the plans were retrospectively revised to contain a spa pool, shower, toilets and a kitchen.
Captain Tom became a household name during the Covid-19 pandemic when he started walking up and down his garden in order to raise money for NHS charities supporting staff, volunteers and patients.
To mark his 100th lap around the garden Captain Tom recorded a a cover of You’ll Never Walk Alone with Michael Ball. The track instantly went to number one making Captain Tom the oldest person to achieve such a feat.
The Grade II listed mansion in Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire, was originally put on the market for £2.25million in in 2024 but it was later taken down after it failed to attract attention
The home was the famous setting of Sir Captain Tom Moore’s lockdown garden walks where he raised £39million for the NHS charities
Captain Tom with his daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore. In 2023 The home found itself at the centre of a controversy in 2023 when Mrs Ingram-Moore was ordered to tear down a £200,000 spa built in the grounds of the property without permission
By his 100th birthday on April 30, 2020, he had raised £30million for the NHS and it was marked by a RAF flypast.
He was later knighted by the late Queen Elizabeth II in July 2020.
In February 2021, Captain Tom passed away from Covid, with his family going on to set up the charity in his name to support ’causes close to [his] heart’.
However, the Captain Tom Foundation – directed by Mrs Ingram-Moore and her husband Colin Ingram-Moore – came under intense scrutiny following a damning Charity Commission report.
It revealed the duo had ‘misled’ the public and made ‘repeated failures in integrity’ as they pocketed around £1.5million from the foundation, and benefited ‘significantly’ through their association with the high-profile charity.
There was also a misleading suggestion that proceeds from a £1.4million book deal would be made to the foundation, including from Captain Tom’s autobiography Tomorrow Will Be A Good Day, the watchdog found.
Both were later disqualified from acting as charity trustees for ten and eight years respectively.
Speaking last year, Mrs Ingram-Moore said her father, who she said was of ‘very sound mind’, wanted to ensure the family ‘lived well’, and that they had a ‘future income’ citing that the pandemic had placed financial pressure on their business.
Mrs Ingram-Moore revealed that after fees the family bagged £800,000 from the book deal, but most of this was depleted by legal costs.