The five bedroom mansion at Slanting Hill, Hermitage, is being sold by Dreweatt Neate and Knight Frank for £985,000.

The house was where company director Alan Pemberton is understood to have shot his estranged wife Julia, and teenage son Will last November, before killing himself.

After receiving a 999 call from district nurse Julia Pemberton, 47, to say her husband was in their garden with a gun, armed police surrounded the house, but did not make a move until six hours later, as Will lay dead on the drive.

Alan Pemberton had moved out of home three months earlier after his wife asked him for a divorce, and he was also facing a £361,000 lawsuit from an ex-employee at his Newbury business AMR Ltd.

The only surviving family member is daughter Laura, now 20, who was away at Cambridge University when the tragedy took place.

The Pembertons had the house built to their own design five years ago, and features include four bathrooms, three-car garage, a snooker room, and three acres of land.