Stunning mansion is the most expensive property in the North - but can't find a buyer after months on the market

A stunning Cheshire mansion is the most expensive property for sale in the North right now - and after months on the market, it still hasn't found a buyer.

Adlington Hall, which was once owned by King Henry III, comes with 1,922 acres of land and 27 other residential properties. The grand hall, near Macclesfield, went up for sale for the first time in 700 years last October, but a lack of interest has since seen the asking priced slashed by £4 million in a bid to find a buyer.

In recent years it has hosted weddings, corporate events, awards ceremonies, photoshoots and is a popular filming location, with several Sherlock Holmes episodes having been filmed there.

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Currently listed for £26 million, the estate boasts 10 period mews houses, a hunting lodge, a garden house, nine other cottages, six farms, 208 acres of woodland and a walled garden, Cheshire Live reports.

Within its walls, which clash with each other in black-and-white Tudor or Georgian styles depending on the wing of the house, can be found opulent mahogany drawing rooms draped in silk, dining rooms with red velvet chairs and antique portraits that watch on from the walls, and a hall with a pipe organ that stretches up to a vaulted ceiling.

Adlington Hall can be traced back to Saxon times when the house was owned by Norman Earls for seven generations until 1221, when it passed to the Crown. Henry III then passed the manor onto Hugh de Corona and, after the marriage of one of his granddaughters to John de Legh of Booth, Adlington Hall became the ancestral home of the Legh family.

Current owner Camilla Legh is set to break with over 700 years of her family's