For sale: 17th-century English sandstone house with original timbers. Drawbacks: it has been disassembled and there are no instructions on how to put it back together.

It has also been moved to Ireland, where planning permission for an English house has so far proved impossible to obtain, and there are no roof tiles or floors. Despite this, the owner of Alwoodley Hall believes he has found someone willing to pay €200,000 (£170,000) for the house he took to Co Clare from West Yorkshire in 2002. The buyer intends to transport the house, which fits into eight articulated lorries, 50 miles across Ireland to rebuild it.

Steve Mitchell, who bought the house in 1999 after it had been left in pieces on farmland for 30 years,

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