His intention had been to model the location on a Cotswold village, but he felt it looked more like a film set because of the six-storey Tudor buildings and the wrong stones and window proportions ...

Fixing up a modern building ... old Tudor chapel? "Very carefully, with a great deal of patience and attention to detail," says the man leading a £200,000 conservation project in Leicestershire.

What at first glance looks like ruins, is in fact a Tudor building site ... Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, was Elizabeth I ...

Earl of Leicester, as a home for soldiers injured in the wars of the Tudor age. Janet and Alan moved into the 700-year-old buildings in October after meeting as In-Pensioners at London's Royal ...