Hannah Ingram-Moore, 53, is using her dad’s accomplishments to entice people into buying the seven-bed home in Bedfordshire (Picture: PA)
Captain Tom’s daughter is using her dad’s name to sell the family home for £2.25 million after she was forced to tear down the spa.
Hannah Ingram-Moore, 53, is using her dad’s accomplishments to entice people into buying the seven-bed home in Bedfordshire.
The lucky buyer can enjoy a stroll in the garden where Captain Tom completed 100 laps to raise money for the NHS in 2020.
They can also marvel at the remains of the £200,000 spa built in the garden which was ordered to be demolished.
Pictures of the hallway on the property website also reveals a statue of Captain Tom sits proudly in the hallway for all visitors to wonder at.
An ‘owner’s statement’ on Rightmove 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 brochure also adds: ‘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.’
Ms Ingram-Moore had been given permission to make a Captain Tom Foundation building in their garden to store cards and gifts sent by admirers.
Captain Tom’s daughter, Hannah Ingram-Moore, lodged the planning application under the Captain Tom Foundation (Picture: PA)
The council declared the building was nothing like the original planning application (Picture: Bav Media)
But she did not seek extra permission after she decided to add a sauna, pool, spa, changing rooms, toilets and showers.
They argued it can be used for ‘rehabilitation sessions for elderly people in the area’, but the council declared it to be ‘wholly different to the application’.
Central Bedfordshire’s Council’s planning inspectorate team ruled the complex was built illegally, saying the sheers scale of spa ‘resulted in hard’ to the Grade II listen family home.
Ms Ingram-Moore and her husband Colin lost a court case in October to try and save their £200,000 spa and pool complex.
But the family failed to launch an appeal within the six week time limit, meaning the building was ordered to be demolished by February 7.
A view of the home of the Ingram-Moores, including the C-shaped spa complex (Picture: PA)
In a TalkTV interview with Piers Morgan, Ms Ingram-Moore conceded it was a mistake to lodge the planning application under the Captain Tom Foundation, saying the building was merely meant to bear his name.
She denied the family had sought to give themselves ‘a little treat’, claiming the paperwork was filed after her father’s death ‘because we wanted it as part of that legacy, and because it was a nice thing to do’.
In the interview she also admitted her family kept the £800,000 profits from three books Captain Tom had written.
The army veteran raised tens of thousands of pounds for the NHS, beaten down by Covid-19 (Picture: PA)
Sir Tom raised £38.9 million for the NHS, including Gift Aid, by walking 100 laps of his garden before his 100th birthday at the height of the first national Covid-19 lockdown in April 2020.
He was knighted by the late Queen during a unique open-air ceremony at Windsor Castle in the summer of that year.
He died aged 100 in February 2021.
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