The HHA also represents big hitters in the historic homes game, from Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire with its 187 rooms, to the 16th-century manor house Ingatestone Hall where Elizabeth I stayed in 1561.
Port Eliot House in Saltash, Cornwall, has been lived in for more than 1,000 years, and is believed to be the oldest continually inhabited dwelling in the UK. The first written reference to it was in the fifth century; Benedictine monks lived there in AD 937; and Sir John Soane remode… (View original article)