Race to raise £7m to buy ‘England’s grandest country house’

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.

An enormous 16th century pile on the edge of Dartmoor - considered to be one of the south west's finest specimens - has been sold for a reported £2m.

Clients selling a 3,500 square foot Kensington townhouse could almost afford to buy two Georgian rectories at the moment, but there remains a reluctance for many to make that move out to the country, says Haringtons'…