An estate agency in Sussex has landed a celebrity home sale with a difference after being instructed to sell a ‘mucky mansion’ that formerly belonged to reality TV star Katie Price.

She was evicted from the Dial Post property in March after HMRC issued a bankruptcy petition last October her over tax debts totalling £762,000.

Price moved out to a much smaller property in Haywards Heath but now faces jail after failing to attend her latest bankruptcy hearing, instead flying to Turkey to have surgery.

The firm tasked with selling her former home is HJ Burt, a well-known estate agency in Sussex with branches in Steyning and Henfield, but not one necessarily known for its celebrity homes.

Rubbish

Price’s former mansion has had some 20 tonnes of ‘rubbish’ removed from its rooms before it could be cleaned, as well as significant work on its overgrown garden, along with the cleaning of its green-slime swimming pool.

Enough work has been done to render the nine-bedroom property marketable and HJ Burt is now offering it for sale at £1.5 million although it’s still described by the firm as ‘in need of restoration’.

Its real name is Platts Green House and is a 1930s-built Arts and Crafts-style mansion.

Refubishment

The firms says in its brochure that: “The property now offers the opportunity for refurbishment and repair to potentially create an impressive family house with extensive accommodation and combined with renovation of the mature grounds including potential reinstatement of the tennis court and swimming pool and enhancements of the nearby paddock and land”.

Perhaps wisely, the agency’s listing makes no mention of its connections to Price, or that it featured in a Channel 4 TV show bearing its former ‘mucky’ name.

Main picture: HJ Burt/Channel 4