A few weeks ago on this website, we took a look at a string of homes that had escaped listed building inspectors, to see what can be done when an owner and their country house experts can work with a free hand. Then, last weekend, we had an example of the exact opposite: a Grade II*-listed home where it's clear a string of custodians have been at pains to preserve things just as they have been for generations .

Werescote's advertisement in Country Life in September 1921, ahead of its auction. (Image credit: Country Life / Future)

Today, we swing back again with a 220-year-old Georgian home so shiny and modern in places that you'd believe us if we told you it had been built five years ago. The house in question is in Somerset, where Chris Clifford of Savills in Exeter seeks ‘offers

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