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Mad Dog Ranch, the Colorado home of late rock legend Joe Cocker, to be auctioned Sept. 1

The English manor features touches of the United Kingdom in Colorado ranch country

Tracy M. Cook of The Denver Post.
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Mad Dog Ranch, the iconoclastic English Tudor mansion in Colorado’s Western Slope ranch country that the  and his wife, Pam, called home, will be auctioned on Sept. 1.

The 16,000-square-foot home was built in 1994 and sits on a 240-acre property in Crawford, 70 miles southeast of Grand Junction.

“Itap an English manor out in middle of Colorado mountains,” said Coldwell Banker Devonshire listing agent Mandy Nadler. “It has a beautiful English garden setting. All around it is Colorado nature.”

The formal gardens, where the hard-partying crooner tended heirloom tomatoes, are “a little piece of the U.K.” Cocker brought with him to Colorado, Nadler said. The eight-bedroom, 10-bathroom home also includes a guest apartment and a seven-stall barn. The grounds back to BLM land that gives way to the West Elk Wilderness to the east.

The auction places a finite timeline on the , which first went on the market before Cocker died of lung cancer in December 2014. The home was listed then for $7 million.

by Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Supreme Auctions. Nadler said she will show the property by appointment every weekend in August.

ʶٴշ:This story was updated at 2:36 p.m. Aug. 4, 2016, to show that the home will be shown by appointment every weekend in August.

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