I live in a large house
That's cool - would you consider it a mansion or a very large dwelling?
It is a mansion. I have 6 bedroom and seven bathroom, a large garden and a swimming pool
would "remain" there...
History.
Within an ancient Roman city, aristocratic people or just wealthy dwellings might be very extensive and luxurious. Such mansions on one hill in Rome became so extensive that the term palatial was derived from the name Palatine hill and is the etymological origin of "palace". Mansions of considerable size and state significance are called palaces.
Following the fall of Rome the practice of building unfortified villas ceased. Today, the oldest inhabited mansions around the world usually began their existence as fortified
- Capt. George Augustus Carteret Thynne (1869-1945), Royal North Devon Yeomanry, who had descendants surviving in 1968.
Stowe Barton.
A range of stone buildings around a large courtyard, including a seven bedroom barton house with the Grenville arms sculpted above the front door, survives, located between the site of the demolished mansion and a surviving overgrown sunken garden believed to have adjoined the Tudor mansion house. The history of this barton house is not well recorded. Harper (1910) wrote: