A luxury Spanish-style villa once owned by comic Sir Norman Wisdom is up for sale.

Lakers House, in West Chiltington, is set in three-and-a-half acres and boasts five bedrooms, garaging for eight cars, a games room, wine cellar, swimming pool and a stable and tack room.

Estate agents Strutt and Parker said the current owner was inviting offers in the region of £1.25 million.

Unusual features of the house include a circular cloakroom and a number of inset stone and plaster works of art depicting a scarecrow, Viking and a matador.

Sir Norman moved to West Chiltington in the late fifties with his wife Freda Simpson, a dancer he married in 1947, and their children, Jackie and Nicholas.

The family became part of the village scene and Sir Norman even picked up a series of awards at the local flower show.

They first lived in a 15th Century cottage, which Rolling Stone Mick Jagger was said to have been interested in buying for a reported £32,000 in the mid-Sixties.

At the time, fellow Stones Charlie Watts and Keith Richards were both living in the Lewes and Chichester areas respectively.

During the Seventies, Sir Norman commissioned the villa, but the garages for his fleet of cars, including a Bentley and a Jaguar, caused a row in the village after the parish council clerk branded them an eyesore.

The former Brighton and Hove Albion director, who made more than 20 films, also had an £80,000 yacht, called the Norman Conquest, berthed at Southwick. Sir Norman, who was knighted in 2000, sold Lakers House in the late seventies and now lives on the Isle of Man.