Found: Britain's oldest house at 10,500 years old. By David Derbyshire Updated: 22:55 GMT, 10 August 2010 It is cramped, draughty and unlikely to win any design awards.
But, according to archaeologists, this wooden hut is one of the most important buildings ever created in Britain. The newly discovered circular structure – as shown in our artist’s impression – is the country’s oldest known home. Built more than 6,000 years before Stonehenge, it provided shelter from the icy winds and storms that battered the nomadic hunters roaming Britain at the end of the last ice age. IS THE OLDEST HOUSE IN AMERICA HAUNTED? By DAILY MAIL REPORTER Last updated at 4:53 PM on 14th April 2011 It’s the oldest timber frame house in America, lived in for generations by the same family and lovingly kept just as it was in its early Colonial days.
But what the Fairbanks House lacks in modern facilities it seems to make for with … strange spirits. The house in Dedham, Massachusetts, was built between 1637 and 1641 by English settlers Jonathan and Grace Fairbanks. Today the house is a museum, but it could very well one of the most haunted houses in America. Is it or isn't it? St. Augustine: America's first city (Part 2)