“It must be one of the oldest houses,” says Jonathan Irwin. We’re standing outside Griesebank House, painted a sunny yellow, a lovely foil for the tall, castellated mill building, now a rather romantic ruin, next door. A plaque on the house’s façade says it was built in 1700 and was home to the Shackleton family, forebears of polar explorer Ernest. Once inside, those with a sweet tooth might be more excited by the fact that, in 1992, it was in this kitchen that Irwin’s wife, Mary Ann O’Brien, made the first batch of her global brand, Lily O’Brien’s Chocolates. “Mary Ann hadn’t been well, and we’d gone to...
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