ONE of Worcestershire's most expensive properties has yet to be snapped up by a buyer, half a year after going on the market.

Worcester estate agent Andrew Grant said his firm had been inundated with calls concerning Stanbrook Abbey in Callow End from interested parties but had yet to finalise anything.

The 19th-Century property, which is likely to attract offers in the region of £6m, was named the most expensive home for sale in the Midlands earlier this year.

Charlotte Fullard, surveyor with Andrew Grant, said that this had not deterred a steady flow of potential buyers arranging viewings, with two new parties looking at the property in the past week.

She added that they now had several interested parties and were awaiting a meeting with the Malvern Hills District Council planners and also English Heritage to determine their thoughts on the proposals.

The 49,000sq ft abbey is set among 21 acres of grounds and is currently home to an order of Benedictine nuns who have lived there since 1838 but announced their plans to move more than four years ago.

Current proposals for the property include a hotel, care home and an alternative medicine and therapy centre, although Mrs Fullard said that she could not elaborate further until the proposals were discussed with the local authority and English Heritage.

She added: "It's been very positive throughout and we've had a considerable amount of interest, but it's such a large property and unique so it's fairly limited as to what people can do with it.

"It all now depends on meeting with planners and the like, which we're still waiting for."

The Benedictine nuns currently living at the abbey are planning to move to a purpose-built monastery in the North Yorkshire National Park.

Callow End residents have previously expressed concern the village would be harmed if there was any large-scale housing or industrial development there.