Two of the parties that have previously said they were interested in buying the Castle Mona Hotel say they haven’t made a new bid.

The historic building has been withdrawn from auction - after an offer for the historic landmark was received.

It had been due to go under the hammer in London on Monday.

But Simon Riggall of auctioneers Lambert Smith Hampton said it had been taken out of the auction catalogue after an offer in excess of the guide price had been received.

The identify of the potential buyer has not been revealed and nor has the size of their offer.

No guide price or reserve had been published but the auctioneers have been separately offering the seafront landmark for sale with offers in excess of £1m.

Mr Riggall told the Examiner: ’We currently have an offer in hand which on the face of it is acceptable. It is a sufficiently good offer over the guide price to withdraw it from auction.

’We are progressing this offer.’

But he said the Castle Mona is still on the market - and there were 25 other interested parties.

He said: ’There are another 25 interested parties, including people overseas, who have registered an interest. They are not aware of the size of this offer.’

He said if sufficient progress was not made by a deadline of mid-September than the Castle Mona would go back in the catalogue for the next auction, which is in October.

Two parties interested in buying the Castle Mona have previously gone public with their interest in the site - the King of Moraceae Foundation and international investment group the Wild Coast Group.

Alan Rice of the Wild Coast Group, which had plans for a top end hotel and private club together with retirement flats on the Palace Hotel site, confirmed he had not put in an offer.

And the self-styled HM King Sole of Moraceae has expressed surprise that an offer had been made.

He told MTTV it was ’odd’ given that the new offer was apparently less than the £1.8m the Foundation had made in November. He said: ’It could change again. I don’t believe it’s completely finished yet and we are interested in going all the way with that.’

The ’King’, aka science fiction author Ian-James Clanton, had plans to turn the Castle Mona into a base for a new ’meritocratic monarchy’. His £1bn crowd-funder for a futuristic floating earth station has raised £1,070.