Plans to install an ‘underground’ spiral wine cellar with an electronic trap door in a stately home have been submitted to the council.
Mr Mark Catton has submitted to Bucks Council a planning application for The Manor House, on Park Road, in Stoke Poges.
Plans detail ‘alterations to the ground floor of the Grade I Listed building, to add a spiral wine store under the existing floor level in the living room, with an electrically operated access hatch’.
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There is also mention of external ventilation pipes.
PICTURED: What the new wine cellar could look like.
The original parts of the house were built circa 1555, with additions made through the centuries.
The latest part was rebuilt in 2010 – it is here the spiral wine store is proposed.
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“The wine store is a small, watertight, pre-cast cylindrical system that is sunk into the ground below the internal floor level,” a design and access statement reads.
A structural report “shows how the cellar can be installed without having to carry out major engineering works on the property in question”.
Planning officers will now decide what becomes of the application.
Photographic images by Spiral Cellars.
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