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Kirby Sigston Manor is a manor house in the village of Kirby Sigston in North Yorkshire, England.
The house is originally built in 1826 but was expanded in the 20th century. It is listed Grade II on the National Heritage List for England.[1] It is two storeys in height and constructed to a three-bay plan with a pair of four-bay wings to the rear of the house.[1] The main door to the house has a Doric doorcase.[1] It has extensive gardens including a lake with a boathouse and a weir.[2]
The house is owned by Rishi Sunak, leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, who bought it for £1.5 million before he became an MP.[3] He was elected as the MP for the local constituency of Richmond (Yorks) in 2015.[4] In 2021 Sunak was granted planning permission to build a leisure complex with a gym, swimming pool and outdoor tennis court in a paddock at the house,[4] which required an upgraded electricity supply.[2] This work was expected to cost £400,000.[3]
Activists from the environmental charity Greenpeace projected a film onto the facade of the house in November 2022 as a protest regarding Sunak's government's policies on fuel poverty in the United Kingdom.[5]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2
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- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Waterson, Jim (12 March 2023). "Rishi Sunak has electricity grid upgraded to heat his private pool". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Neate, Rupert (22 October 2022). "Does Rishi Sunak's £730m fortune make him too rich to be PM?". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 October 2022.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Chancellor Rishi Sunak has new pool, gym and tennis court approved". BBC News. 26 August 2021. Retrieved 23 April 2022.
- ↑ Pidd, Helen (15 November 2022). "Green activists project fuel poverty images on to Rishi Sunak's house". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 November 2022.