This breathtaking dolls house is about to sell for £50,000 -the price of several real homes on the UK property market - after winning the heart of an overseas collector.

The tiny 10-bed mansion, with its own servants’ quarters, a music room with grand piano, a hand-crafted games room with snooker table and a library with over 1,000 separately bound books, took Peter Riches a painstaking 15 years to complete.

He has spent an average of eight hours every day since 1994 working on the miniature mansion, his biggest ever project.