IT looks like something out of a Jane Austen novel. The imposing Moundsmere Manor towers above the Hampshire village of Preston Candover as if waiting for Mr Darcy to gallop up its mile-long driveway.

And for a cool £6m it could be yours!

"It's quite a statement," said Alex Lawson of estate agents FPDSavills, who is handling the sale. "It has a grand design so it's going to be bought by someone who feels they really have arrived.

"It's difficult to predict who will buy this property but it will be someone who's going to have a lot of money to buy and continue running it."

The property is being sold by farmer and landowner Mark Andre.

Described by art historian Nikolaus Pevsner as a "sumptuous mansion", Moundsmere Manor sits in 83 acres of mature parkland and has symmetrical proportions to a magnificent hall understood to replicate that of the Art Gallery at The Hague.

And there's no shortage of space.

The mansion has eight principal bedroom suites, a nursery, eight further bedrooms, five reception rooms, staff accommodation, gate lodges, walled gardens, a swimming pool, tennis court and stone pavilions.

Hume Jones of FPDSavills Winchester said: "I can't think of a house in Hampshire that we have sold with as good a position as Moundsmere. Where else can a house be purchased within 60 miles of London with a mile-long drive to it? Once you get there the views are incredible. You can see miles and miles of rolling countryside, as the house lords it above the Candover Valley and its illustrious occupants. For me, it is the best address in Hampshire."

Moundsmere Manor was built for businessman Wilfred Buckley in 1908-9 by Sir Reginald Blomfield, the architect famous for the Menin Gate War Memorial, the Carlton Club and the remodelling of Regent Street.

The property went on the market last Thursday. There has been a large amount of interest but no offers to date.