Weatherill’s Plantation House with historic out buildings including 17^th Century Sugar Mill with 35 acres of prime development land near St. John’s, The V. C. Bird International Airport, Ffreyes Hill Road Commercial Centers and the Cedar Valley Golf Course, is a unique opportunity for development of a gated community featuring the main house and restored buildings as a boutique hotel, art and cultural shops. The property has access to 5 beaches over other lands previously owned by the estate.

The Estate, originally over 350 acres, was granted to Mr. James Weatherill by the Crown in 1660 and by 1706 the estate was converted to a sugar and sea island cotton plantation. Many of the outbuilding including the sugar mill date to this period. The existing Plantation House was built in 1882 and has been maintained in pristine condition and is ready for modernization while maintain the character both inside and out.

The 35 acres of land remaining has excellent elevations and undulating hillsides for subdivision into building plots which can be developed with covenants to maintain the character of the Georgian Period featuring “Caribbean Style homes”.

Weatherill’s is in the North West of Antigua, in close proximity to prime residential areas, restaurants, bars, entertainment and other amenities as well as some of Antigua’s best hotels.

SHORT HISTORY OF WEATHERILLS
James Weatherill received the land called Weatherills Estate by crown grant in 1660, and developed it at as a sugar cane and cotton estate. Since then it has been owned by only 5 families; the Hallidays (1740-1870), Viscount Combermere (1870-1882), the Lane family (1882-1945) who moved the house to its present location in 1882, Mrs. Maginly (1945-1946), and the Schaflers (1945-present). The mill itself (ʻPeggy Hallidayʼ) ground the sugar canes until 1912. After this time, the canes were harvested and transported by train to the centralized sugar factory. Weatherill's remained a productive sugar cane and sea-island cotton Estate until the 1970ʼs when this kind of large-scale farming ceased in Antigua.

Price: US$ 8,000,000.

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