Show House Eleven Hundred Years Old of St Albana possesses the oldest la tin habited house in tho country Thuof distinction Is said to belong to the old of Round house now the Fighting CocVJ ng inn which stands close to tho RtTtf be I Ver It is a curious structurecl octagonal shape of early Saxon origin re ori-gin having been built as a boathouie an to tho ancient monastery founded st St Albana by King Offa about the ac year 795 and Is thus over 1100 years IC old A subterranean passage maw vi blocked up runs from the basement lh to tho ruins of tho monastery a dim in There Is a tanco of about 200 yards shed at the back of tho house where kIt I his is Cromwell stabled n it said Oliver I under Its h sleeping horse himself once roof during the civil war Collectlnt j 11 |