The estate where Evelyn Waugh lived while writing “Brideshead Revisited” was recently sold, but the renters—a Waugh superfan and her partner—are refusing to leave.
In 1937, the novelist Evelyn Waugh moved into Piers Court, a Georgian manor house near the town of Dursley, in the Cotswolds countryside. The house, a wedding gift from Waugh’s in-laws, sits on twenty-four acres and has eight bedrooms, six sitting rooms, a wine cellar, and a croquet lawn. Waugh wasn’t a fan. “I live in a shabby stone house in the country, where nothing is under a hundred years old except the plumbing and that does not work,” he toldmagazine.
The bank put the house up for auction last month. Madi and Lawton dug in. They refused to leave, nor would they allow any viewings or provide any photos of the house. Thedispatched a photographer, who snapped shots of Madi walking his dog, Boo. The Evelyn Waugh Society, which operates a blog, evinced skepticism of Lawton’s Waugh fandom, based on an account from a member who visited the house in 2019 and reported that Lawton hadn’t known that it had belonged to the novelist.
What of the tenants? Had they pulled a Harry and Meghan and left town? Or were they still defiantly partying? The gates to Piers Court, which are in mild decay, were open on a recent day. A long driveway led to a house of almost comic grandeur. Madi answered the door dressed all in gray. Lawton remained upstairs. Boo was nowhere to be seen. “We are extremely private people and do not like the media attention,” Madi said. “We are caught up in our friend’s problems. And it is a real bummer.
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