Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1898 — Oldest Inhabited House in England. [ARTICLE]

Oldest Inhabited House in England.

The oldest inhabited house in England stands close to the River Ver, and about 250 yards from St. Albans Abbey. It was built in the time of King Offa, of Mercia, about the year 795, and thus is over 1,100 years old. It is of octagonal shape, the upper portion being of oak, and the lower has walls of great thickness. Last century it was a famous resort for witnesssing cockfights. At one time it was fortified, and bore the.name of St. German’s Gate.