I saw this on a short list of celebrity homes that are quite impressive. And this one is certainly that. The name of this impressive domicile is Friar Park, and it was owned by Beatle George Harrison for three decades. According to the list text, his wife still lives there.
A few other people could live there too.
Here's a short summary of what's there. This is from Country Life UK.
"The Victoria County History describes Friar Park as ‘a colourful and eccentric melange of French Flamboyant Gothic in brick, stone and terracotta, incorporating towers, pinnacles and large traceried windows’. It was enlarged and embellished by Sir Frank Crisp, a brilliant lawyer, who bubbled over with charm and energy, but was also an enthusiastic botanist and treasurer of the Linnaean Society of London. He was rich enough, too, to employ 45 gardeners at Friar Park. Alpine plants were his greatest passion and, in 1896, he began to develop his spectacular four-acre Alpine Garden, topped by a scaled-down copy of the Matterhorn."The house itself?
It apparently doesn't have 120 rooms -- George Harrison's wife, who still lives there, says that's too many -- but it probably doesn't have much less than that.

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