Britain's largest private home and the former residence of the man who inspired Jane Austen's legendary character Mr Darcy has been sold for £8million. Measuring 150 times the size of an average home, twice as wide as Buckingham Palace and featuring five miles of corridors, Wentworth Woodhouse is regarded as one of Europe's grandest homes. The 606ft wide South Yorkshire mansion, has a floor space of 124,000sq/ft and an estimated 350 rooms - but is so big no-one knows the exact number. In comparison, the average new build in England and Wales has around 818sq/ft, making the giant house 150 times larger. The stately home went on sale in May - and it was announced on Friday that it had been sold to an investment company based in Hong Kong.Wentworth Woodhouse and its former owner was said to have inspired Mr Darcy in the Pride and Prejudice novelLocated in South Yorkshire, the building is Britain's largest private home and features five miles of corridorsOn Friday it was announced Hong Kong-based Lake House Group had paid the asking price for stately mansion
But whoever buys _ will have to spend millions restoring a large part of it which currently sits uninhabitable.