Jimmy Page's rocking riverside Pangbourne pad up for sale

A River Thames boathouse with connections to legendary rock band Led Zeppelin has been put up for sale

A RIVER Thames boathouse in Pangbourne which was the birthplace of legendary rock band Led Zeppelin is up for sale.

Guitarist Jimmy Page paid £6,000 for the property in 1967, which had been a boathouse with wet dock and offices belonging to Hopps of Henley from the 19th century until its 1959 conversion into a residential dwelling.

The current owner Graham Gore, who ran his own building firm before his retirement in 2003, bought the property for £98,500 in 1984 and moved in with his wife and two sons.

He was quite unaware of the celebrity connection until his neighbours explained it to him, and has many tales of brushes with rock and roll aristocracy such as the day singer Robert Plant popped by unannounced, much to Mr Gore's surprise.

Over the years he added and extended to the property, and the basement, where the wet dock once existed, now hosts a fully heated indoor swimming pool.

Mr Gore said now his sons had grown up and moved out it was time to move on, and is listed with a sale price of £1,100,000

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