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[quote=Anonymous]Bless This House, by Norah Lofts. She did in 1983 and wrote a lot of historical fiction, also murder-mystery under a different name. I was addicted to her historical novels when I was younger, and she is a very good writer.

The house is the main character. Starts with it being built in the early 1600s if I recall right, lots of detail about the building process from the point of view of a carpenter and (if memory serves) his restless son. Goes through many, many generations, social changes, changes in fortune (I remember it at some point, having been left to deteriorate, some poor but industrious woman manages to acquire it and start a business selling eggs and cheese ) there are murders, witches, pirates, the civil wars in England, complicated marriage arrangements among society/nobility, changes in owners, goes all the way to a 20th century woman who ends up owning it and is faced with the impossible cost of restoring and maintaining it (it was built as a "great house"). [/quote]

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