A STUNNING country home owned by former England manager Kevin Keegan has been put up for sale.

The mansion is set in grounds 24 times the size of Wembley, on the Wynyard Hall estate, near Billingham, Teesside.

The Newcastle United hero and ex-England skipper and manager lived in the luxury home with wife, Jean, and daughters Laura and Sarah.

The exclusive 6,500-acre Wynyard Park, near Stockton, has an impressive gate lodge, outbuildings and gardens.

Estate agents Strutt and Parker are advertising the sale of the two-storey property, which sits on a 41-acre plot, for offers in excess of £2.5m.

Former Newcastle chairman Sir John Hall bought the Wynyard Hall estate in 1987 after he sold the MetroCentre, which had brought him his wealth as well as his knighthood. It was Sir John who bankrolled the Keegan era at Newcastle.

The estate boasts a reception hall, drawing room, study, dining room, sitting room, breakfast kitchen, gym, conservatory, shower room, sauna, dog room, larder, laundry room and boot room.

There is also a single bedroom annex with a bathroom, five bedrooms, four en suite bathrooms, a snooker room and an office.

A three-bedroomed lodge features in the garage area, as well as two stable yards and outbuildings, a stable building, an exercise arena, grass paddocks and a field.

The estate once belonged to the Londonderry coal mining family and has been visited by historic figures including the Duke of Wellington, Robert Peel and Winston Churchill.