An 18th Century barn and adjoining rooms were torched at Chilford Hall, Linton, Cambridgeshire, in June.

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Male and female recruits were moved into adjoining rooms housing up to eight soldiers, all the same sex.

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If you are not alone, get two adjoining rooms and suite them up.

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The Dodgers Akasaki once had to come to a player's suite to show him where to push open the door between adjoining rooms.

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Adjoining rooms contain projects by the great Hollis Frampton including his motion studies inspired by Eadweard Muybridge, and his film "Gloria, " a portrait of Frampton's Irish grandmother.

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Now they are prized and pricey, found on mezzanines overlooking the kitchen or in glass-walled rooms adjoining the "hot line, " where cooks dish up their vittles.

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The adjoining cattle shed has been renovated to provide four clean and comfortable guest rooms and visitors are sometimes offered a glass of Juan Palerm's rich, homemade red wine at sunset.

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