FEEL AT HOME WITH A HISTORIC HOLIDAY
PROMOTIONAL FEATURE
From a Queen Anne Grade II*-listed country house to a Victorian mansion, and from a medieval great hall to a Franciscan friary, the Holiday Property Bond is the custodian of over 30 historic properties that have been converted into exclusive holiday homes.
Become a Bondholder and you’ll be able to discover the fascinating history of these beautiful locations. Not only that, your holiday booking power will be reissued to you every year, so you can holiday in history time and time again.
SEE THE PAST BECOME THE PRESENT
For over 40 years, HPB has been discovering unique properties with a fascinating past and then carefully restoring and renovating them.
Coo Palace was built as a very grand stable for a breed of Belted Galloway cows. HPB has renovated this collection of Grade-A-listed buildings into a unique holiday site, adhering closely to the original design. Become a Bondholder and you’ll be able to stay in one of its luxury apartments.
View Coo PalaceCLAIM A 5% BONUS ON YOUR HOLIDAY ENTITLEMENT
From a unique, restored collection of Scottish farm buildings to a Queen Anne manor in Cornwall, joining the Holiday Property Bond allows you to enjoy year after year of exclusive holidays in historic buildings. In fact, with over 1,500 superb holiday homes in 32 European locations to choose from, you’ll always have somewhere new to discover.
As an English Heritage member, you can receive a 5% bonus on your holiday entitlement when you become a Bondholder, meaning even more opportunities to enjoy HPB’s wonderful locations and accommodation.
Request a brochureSpotlight on Sibton
FROM MANOR HOUSE TO HOLIDAY DELIGHT
The elegance of Queen-Anne-style architecture is much admired, and historic sites such as Rainham Hall welcome thousands of visitors every year. But wouldn’t it be even better to holiday in a beautiful Queen Anne property?
The Holiday Property Bond gives all its Bondholders the opportunity to stay in a magnificent Queen Anne Grade II*-listed building, Sibton Park in Kent, which has a long and intriguing history.
The manor here dates all the way back to 1171, when the first recorded tenants were a family named the Fitzbernards. Their descendants bought the manor from the Archbishop of Canterbury and remained here until 1438.
The manor began to take on its present shape in 1602, when Nicholas Salkeld rebuilt the house, which he faced northwest. The house was extended again in 1900 by Captain John Howard, who also founded the nearby cricket club.
In the late 1930s, the ground floor of the property was taken over by the military, while the owners lived in the upper floors. After 1948, it was converted into a girls’ preparatory school, and was home to 80 boarders (and their ponies!).
Today, Sibton Park is one of the prestigious Holiday Property Bond properties across the UK, and has 31 holiday cottages and apartments for guests. With an indoor heated swimming pool, library, snooker room, tennis courts and nine-hole golf course, there’s plenty to keep today’s visitors occupied.
You too can enjoy holidays in historic and evocative places such as Sibton by becoming a Holiday Property Bondholder. Find out more by requesting your brochure today.
Request a brochureTHINGS TO SEE AT SIBTON
SIBTON’S ‘LONG ROOM’ STRETCHES THE WHOLE WIDTH OF THE BUILDING
THE OAK PANELS IN THE SNOOKER ROOM ARE CARVED WITH THE DATE 1602
DOVER CASTLE IS NEARBY
NEARBY CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL
THE GRADE-II LISTED BUILDING IS PREDOMINANTLY 17TH-CENTURY
THE PAST COMING TO LIFE
During renovations at Sibton, HPB found a collection of copper-plate ‘relief’ photographs. No one knows who took them or why, but HPB was determined to find out more.
HPB took the plates along to a printmakers in nearby Rochester, where master printers used a glass plate and ink to uncover the secrets held within the plates. Using an etching press, the printer revealed a set of pictures of this much-loved mansion from one of its earlier incarnations, as a girls’ preparatory boarding school.
The photographs now hang in the reception at Sibton Park, and are available to view. If you would like to arrange a private tour of Sibton or another HPB property near you, you can find details of the latest tours available at the link below.
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EXCLUSIVE HOLIDAYS FOR LIFE
An initial payment from £5,000 and a quarterly fee of under £38 (around £150 a year), which can increase in line with but not exceed the Retail Price Index Excluding Mortgage Interest (RPIX), gives you access to all HPB’s holiday homes. For each HPB holiday, you will pay a no-profit user charge covering only property running and maintenance costs and use of on-site facilities. The average charge is the same throughout the year, and for a studio is around £360 a week and £540 for a two-bedroom property. Larger properties are also available. After an initial charge of 25% your money is invested in a fund of holiday properties and securities. The fund itself meets annual charges of 2.5% of its net assets at cost, calculated monthly. Your investment return is purely in the form of holidays and, as with most investments, your capital is at risk. You can surrender your investment to the company after two years or more (subject to deferral in exceptional circumstances) but you will get back less than you invested because of the charges referred to above, as well as other overheads and changes in the value of the fund’s properties and securities.
This advertisement is issued by HPB Management Limited (HPBM), the main UK agent and the property manager for HPB, authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority, registered at HPB House, Newmarket, Suffolk, CB8 8EH. HPB is available exclusively through HPBM. HPB is issued by HPB Assurance Limited (HPBA) registered in the Isle of Man and authorised by the Financial Services Authority there. HPBM promotes only HPB and is not independent of HPBA. Holders of policies issued by HPBA will not be protected by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme if the company becomes unable to meet its liabilities to them but Isle of Man compensation arrangements apply to new policies.
