Who wants to be a millionaire? (From Warrington Guardian)

Who wants to be a millionaire?

A HISTORIC house is on the market for more than £1m in Croft.

The detached Kenyon Lane property is the former hunting lodge of the second Earl of Wilton, Thomas Grosvenor Egerton.

An open viewing has attracted interest from as far afield as Paris as the property market rebounds after a sluggish summer.

The French couple spotted the house in the Warrington Guardian's homes supplement as they house hunted in the north west.

Wilton Grange was built in the 1850s - as was a cottage two doors along to house the earl's mistress.

The current owners are the entrepreneurs who patented a programme for checking Chip and Pin cards.

Wendy and Dave Maisey set up Warrington-based ICC Solutions seven years ago and are now moving on to a £1.3m Gregorian home in Newton Road, Croft, that they first noticed more than 20 years ago.

They kept the home as authentic as possible, with original style floors and wallpapers and they even used a crane to hoist a porcelain bath in through a window.