Captain Tom’s daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore has promoted her father’s heroic lockdown fundraising efforts as she puts up the family’s Buckinghamshire mansion for sale.
The 52-year-old is selling the seven-bedroom property with her husband Collin, 66, after being forced to tear down the £200,000 spa complex built without planning permission.
Tom inspired the nation during the pandemic after he walked 100 laps around the garden of the house to raise more than £38million for NHS charities.
And the late lockdown charity fundraiser’s legacy has been preserved at the home, with a bust of him seen in the main hallway in pictures on Rightmove.
But the property is now being sold after the family faced criticism for building a contentious spa building that was bigger than previously agreed with the local authorities.
Captain Tom’s daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore is selling the £2.25million Buckinghamshire mansion. Pictured: The family home (left) and unauthorised spa (right) before it was demolished in January
A bust of the late lockdown charity fundraiser can be seen in the Rightmove advert to sell the family’s £2.25million home
The ‘owner’s statement’ for the house reads: ‘A particularly special memory of our time here is of my father walking 100 laps of the garden to raise a record-breaking sum of almost £40million for NHS charities during the pandemic.
‘The property is owned by the family of Captain Sir Tom Moore who spent his final years there raising money for the NHS during the Covid pandemic.’
The house boasts four bathrooms, four reception rooms and is set in 3.5 acres with a stand alone Coach House.
Potential buyers will have to provide ID, proof of wealth and sign NDAs before visiting the property.
The unauthorised spa was torn down in January this year. Pictured: Demolishers knocking down the building
Hannah Ingram-Moore pictured with her lockdown hero father Captain Toom in April 2020
The owner description continues: ‘It was the opportunity for multigenerational living that first drew us to this property.
‘We were living in Surrey, my elderly father was in Kent, and we were setting up our own business needing access to London, so we drew a circle on the map to determine how far we were willing to move.
‘Initially, we were looking for a house for us and our young family, and another nearby for my father, but when we found The Rectory with its own Coach House in the grounds, we increasingly liked the idea of all living together.
‘As the Coach House was in use as a B&B, my father ended up living with us in the main house, which with its 7 bedrooms including two master suites is more than big enough!
‘In the years since, it has been wonderful to see young and old thrive in a family home where everyone has their own space.’
The bust of Captain Tom Moore is being used in promotional pictures to sell the family’s £2.25million home
The home also included a controversial L-shaped spa complex that had to be taken down in February of this year.
In August 2021, the Ingram-Moores were granted permission for a Captain Tom Foundation Building in the grounds of their home to support its charitable objectives.
The building was given the green light, but Central Bedfordshire Council refused a subsequent retrospective application in 2022 for a larger C-shaped building containing a spa pool.
The demolition work was carried out on February 7, after the family lost an appeal against Central Bedfordshire Council to keep the complex after a planning inspector ruled it was ‘at odds’ with their Grade ll-listed home.
Before it was taken down, the Ingram-Moore’s were seen packing away Sir Tom’s legacy in boxes with photos of the war hero at Windsor Castle and his Sports Personality of the Year and Guinness World Record awards removed from the complex.
Ms Ingram Moore also faced a probe into payments made through her family company for appearances linked to her late father’s charity in August 2023.
She reportedly attended and judged awards ceremonies in 2021 and 2022 as interim chief executive of the Captain Tom Foundation, but had payments for the appearances made to her company, Maytrix Group.
In an interview with Piers Morgan on TalkTV in October, she admitted to keeping £800,000 from books that the late army veteran had written.
She said the family kept the sum from three books because Captain Tom had wanted them to retain the profits.
World War Two veteran Captain Tom was knighted by the late Queen for walking 100 laps around the garden of the house during the Covid pandemic in 2020, raising £38million for NHS charities.
He died on February 2, 2001, at the age of 100, with Buckingham Palace announcing the Queen had sent the family a ‘private message of condolence’
