Fair enough mate, that big house would be good over here in Oz, all that stone would keep it nice and cool? Bloody useless in wet miserable Pommy Land though, I would have thought?
Here's a pic of my "Ancestral Home" built by my great great great etc grandfather, Phillipe De Prendergast, in Enniscorthy, county Wexford, in Ireland. Nice old place, but once again, the heating bill would be a killer, ha ha! Cheers, Terry.