it was a derelict ruin and almost everything of historical value had been destroyed,” said the current owner, Barry Howard. “When we embarked upon this extremely ambitious project of restoration we spent an awful lot of time looking at old photographs and researching the history of the building, and I think that in terms of the look of the house, what we have managed to achieved is as close to the original design as we could possibly have wished for.” “This is a house that is steeped in history, and even has a connection to royalty as it is thought that King Edward VII was a regular visitor in the early 1900s. While researching the history we also discovered that at one point it was accessed via its own private drive which had been covered up for over a hundred years.