Hughenden Manor is a red brick Victorian mansion, and is best-known for being the country house of the Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield in the 19th century. Today, it is owned by the National Trust and is open to the public.
The scent of an old-fashioned perfume has been reported in one of the small upstairs rooms. Also the sensation of a gathering of people in a downstairs room has been reported, although nothing visual was experienced.
The house has a number of ghosts associated with it, including that of a man in "archaic clothes" in the basement. However, it is the apparition of Hughenden Manor’s most noted inhabitant, Benjamin Disraeli, that makes its presence known the most. It has been reported at the foot of the cellar stairs and on the upper floors, including one particularly unnerving encounter for a witness which took place in Disraeli's office.
Pictured left is Disraeli's office courtesy of Simon Q.
Hughenden Manor,
High Wycombe,
Buckinghamshire,
HP14 4LA.
For further information, please read Haunted Britain by Antony D. Hippisley Coxe; Ghosts: Mysterious Tales from the National Trust by Sian Evans and Haunted Places of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire by Rupert Matthews.