--- title: You Can Buy Mr. Darcy's House description: The British estate that inspired Jane Austen is up for sale canonical: https://time.com/3585752/buy-mr-darcy-house-pemberley-jane-austen/ author: Laura Stampler article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-11-14T17:47:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:14:38.293Z og:title: You Can Buy Mr. Darcy's House og:description: The British estate that inspired Jane Austen is up for sale og:url: https://time.com/3585752/buy-mr-darcy-house-pemberley-jane-austen/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt188bd887e522021e/698768d0f887dc6c90e885f9/109188920.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 61st Berlin Film Festival - The King's Speech - Photocall og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: You Can Buy Mr. Darcy's House twitter:description: The British estate that inspired Jane Austen is up for sale twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt188bd887e522021e/698768d0f887dc6c90e885f9/109188920.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # You Can Buy Mr. Darcy's House by [Laura Stampler](/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Nov 14, 2014 5:47 PM CUT  Actor Colin Firth Actor Colin FirthSean Gallup—Getty Images by [Laura Stampler](/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Nov 14, 2014 5:47 PM CUT You might not be able to live out the rest of your days with _Pride and Prejudice’s_ fictional Mr. Darcy, but you can spend them at his British estate. Wentworth Woodhouse — the residence that reportedly inspired Jane Austen’s depiction of Darcy’s home, Pemberley — is reportedly going on the market for a mere $10.9 million. A spokesperson for U.K. estate agency Savills told the [_Daily Mail_](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2827831/Yours-7million-mansion-makes-Downton-look-modest-s-past-bit-scandal-filled-says-ROBERT-HARDMAN.html "undefined") that the manor will go on the market “in the new year.” The estate will serve as the perfect muse for all that _Pride and Prejudice_ fan fiction you’ve been dying to write. > [](https://twitter.com/marieclaireuk/status/533268143615930368) The estate, which has five miles worth of corridors, was home to the fourth Earl Fitzwilliam, who [reportedly](http://www.cosmopolitan.com/home/news/a33208/jane-austen-pride-and-prejudice-home-for-sale/?click=%5FhpTrnsprtr%5F7 "undefined") inspired Darcy himself. While $10.9 million might seem like a bargain, keep in mind that there is an estimated $65.6 million of required repairs. Worth it. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3585752/buy-mr-darcy-house-pemberley-jane-austen/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3585752/buy-mr-darcy-house-pemberley-jane-austen/"},"headline":"You Can Buy Mr. Darcy's House","datePublished":"2014-11-14T17:47:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:14:38.293Z","description":"The British estate that inspired Jane Austen is up for sale","url":"https://time.com/3585752/buy-mr-darcy-house-pemberley-jane-austen/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Living","society","Books"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt188bd887e522021e/698768d0f887dc6c90e885f9/109188920.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Laura Stampler","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt188bd887e522021e/698768d0f887dc6c90e885f9/109188920.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"61st Berlin Film Festival - The King's Speech - Photocall","caption":"61st Berlin Film Festival - The King's Speech - Photocall","creditText":"Sean Gallup—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3585752/buy-mr-darcy-house-pemberley-jane-austen/","name":"You Can Buy Mr. Darcy's House"}}]}] ```