Recent and Current Activities
Plans to develop the site as a hotel or outdoor pursuits centre have so far been unfulfilled, with emergency repairs to the house carried out in 2008-9.
The Estate was marketed for sale in October 2005 with Jackson-Stops & Staff, Estate Agents, with an asking price of £2 million. It reportedly had planning and Listed building consent for the restoration of the house, stable block and kitchen gardens, together with their associated cottages. The estate was withdrawn from sale in early 2012.
In July 2011, a festival with a central environmental focus, the Green Gathering, was held in the grounds of Piercefield House. It was later announced that the site would be the venue of future annual festivals.
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