Claudia Schiffer and Matthew Vaughn have scrapped plans to install electric plugs at their £7.5m Tudor mansion over fears they could damage panelling made from ancient oak.
Father Edward Oldcorne’s crucifix is the only known item to survive of the thousands of objects seized during raids on Catholic houses following the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot in 1605.
Those with a taste for reliving history can sleep in the gatehouse of Robert Catesby s manor, where he met with failed assassin Guy Fawkes and other conspirators as they planned the mass murder.