Elizabethan splendour come head-to-head with a pool and cinema room at this sprawling and grand country house in East Anglia

Intricate plasterwork ceilings, leaded windows and wood-panelled rooms meet all mod cons at Westwood Park, as Penny Churchill explains.

Grade II*-listed Westwood Park at Great Horkesley, four miles north of Colchester, is a ruin-to-riches story that has seen the transformation of a rundown former care home and wedding venue into an impressive, 23,760sq ft, country house.

For sale through Tim Phillips of Savills at a guide price of £6.5m, Westwood Park stands in 52…