Otherwise, cut down to Autoire, a tiny village of turreted houses in a wooded valley.

At the time, Akhmatova was still married to Nikolai Gumilev, who first brought her to the turreted house.

The exterior of the red brick, turreted house and the drawing room remain as designed by Hardy, who originally trained as an architect.

Schwarz's brick, turreted castle-style house, built in 1890, now serves as the enclave's community center.

Mr and Mrs Woodbean had already moved out to the little turreted house over the iron bridge from the main farm.

Beyond, a sliver of yellow electric light came from a curtained window of the Woodbeans' little turreted house.

Jake moved to Aspen, opened a new store, married, and built a turreted house.

Fearfully he watched the murky gloom ahead, afraid that that turreted house might loom into view again.

A couple could live here happily," she says of the magnificent 16-bedroom, 16-bathroom turreted house approached by a two-kilometre drive that sweeps around a 22-acre lake.

Originally the Coppolas planned to use the property, which included a turreted Victorian house, as a weekend retreat.