The house from a 1911 postcard
House & Family History: In 1975 the house and 15,000 acres were sold for £2 million by Bill Stirling, brother of Special Air Service (SAS) founder Sir David Stirling, to Mohammed Mahdi Al Tajir, an Emirati businessman and the first United Arab Emirates ambassador to Great Britain.
Collections: Most of the contents of Keir House were sold at Christie's in December of 1982. In 1995 further contents were auctioned for more than £1.5 million. Also in 1995, six paintings were auctioned for £553,000 in Sotheby's Old Masters sale, including "The Pieta" by Luis de Morales, which was hammered down for £311,000.
Architect: Arthur Forman Balfour Paul
Date: 1912John Bernard (J.B.) Burke, published under the title of A Visitation of the Seats and Arms of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, among other titles: 2.S. Vol. II, p. 124, 1855.
Country Life: CLVII. 326, 390, 506, 1975.
Title: Disintegration of a Heritage: Country Houses and their Collections, 1979-1992, The
Author: Sayer, Michael
Year Published: 1993
Publisher: Norfolk: Michael Russell (Publishing)
ISBN: 0859551970
Book Type: Hardback
House Listed: Category A
Park Listed: Listed as a Garden & Designed Landscape
Current Seat / Home of: Mohammed Mahdi Al Tajir; here since 1975.
Past Seat / Home of: Bill Stirling, late 20th century; Stirling and Stirling-Maxwell families, here from the 15th century until 1975.
Current Ownership Type: Individual / Family Trust
Primary Current Ownership Use: Private Home
House Open to Public: No
Historic Houses Member: No