Residential developer City & Country has just bought one of the country's most important period mansions - the Grade I-listed Police College at Bramshill in Hampshire - for an undisclosed sum.

An important country house in Berkshire has been snapped up at auction for just over £2m, a fraction of what it was asking on the open market last year.

A 200-year-old stately home has just been listed for sale complete with the chance to become a bona fide Lord of the Manor.