The scale of the building lent it a vestigial grandeur, but it felt desolate and Ozymandian. The interiors were ravaged: water had leaked through holes in the roof, and, upstairs, the brittle floorboards cracked under our footsteps. There had been no parties there for half a century, and the house had not been occupied regularly since the seventies. ![]() ![]() In May, 2008, I toured Witanhurst with a real-estate agent. ![]() The house’s owners have built a vast basement that amounts to an underground village.
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