Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead mansion sold for £3m despite tenants refusing to leave

Cotswold home, currently housing superfans' who are paying rent of 5 a week, sold to online buyer

The Grade II*-listed Cotswold mansion where Evelyn Waugh wrote Brideshead Revisited has sold at auction for 3.16m despite buyers being warned that sitting tenants - who are paying a weekly rent of 5 a week - are refusing to leave the property.

Piers Court, at Stinchcombe, a village about halfway between Bristol and Cheltenham, was sold to an unnamed bidder in an online auction on Thursday after the owner defaulted on a loan secured against the eight-bedroom, six-bathroom property.