Unassuming 5-bed house hides incredible 800-year-old secret 60ft beneath its floorboards – and could be yours for £1m

AN UNASSUMING location hides an unthinkable 800-year-old concealed 60ft beneath its floorboards - and it could beryllium yours for £1m.

Beckets is simply a Grade II-listed location based successful the colony of Eastry successful Kent.

Beckets contains 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 3 sitting rooms, parking, and it's up for merchantability for £1,000,000.

If walls could speak, they would archer however Thomas Becket fled the wrath of King Henry II utilizing this property's unsocial feature.

Historic underground tunnels which descend 50 to 60 feet underground acceptable this location isolated from the rest.

During The Archbishop of Canterbury's rift with the King implicit rights and privileges of the church, it is believed helium hid successful these burrows.

He was waiting for a sportfishing vessel to instrumentality him from Sandwich to France successful 1164.

But helium was killed by a radical of the King's knights successful Canterbury Cathedral.

Following his death, helium was canonised by Pope Alexander III.

Beckets location has adjacent been awarded the red-diamond Historic Buildings of Kent plaque, which tin beryllium seen connected the outer wall.

To this day, the location features a medieval extortion structure, partition model and wattle and daub sections.

More sections were added successful the 18th Century and the 1970s.

Other medieval features see exposed beams, archetypal floorboards, doors and sash windows, on with characterful fireplaces.

It has 2,531 quadrate feet of accommodation with a room and meal room, eating room, sitting room, 5 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.

Of course, determination is inactive entree to the caves outside.

Plus, parking for 4 cars, a azygous garage, an aged stable, and the gardens which see a wildlife pond and treehouse.

The owners said: "We fell successful emotion with Beckets arsenic soon arsenic we saw it and fought hard to bargain this bonzer home.

"We were blown distant by the history of a location that has evolved implicit galore centuries.

"We are inactive making discoveries supra and beneath ground, aft much than 20 years here.

"When making improvements we person cautiously preserved the galore humanities features that lend to making this a fantastic household home.

"After overmuch deliberation, we reluctantly felt that present is the close clip successful our lives to entrust Beckets to caller enthusiastic owners to bask this singular place.'

A spokesperson for property agents Fine & Country added: "While determination whitethorn beryllium a sizeable fig of 'unique' properties successful this country, determination are improbable to beryllium galore that see the lone entranceway to a labyrinth of subterranean tunnels and caves that descend to immoderate 50 to 60 feet beneath crushed successful immoderate places and widen a agelong mode nether roads, fields and houses successful Eastry village.

"If you adhd the fable that Thomas Becket hid successful the caves portion fleeing the wrath of Henry II earlier returning to Canterbury wherever helium was murdered, you bash person a spot that is genuinely unsocial and steeped successful history."