The bizarre saga of a Broads period house, its wealthy owners and their sex therapist tenant has taken a new twist.

'Lady Pea', Patricia Ramshaw, continues to be embroiled in row with the Cator family over her tenancy of the Old House in Ranworth - which she moved into with more than a dozen animals in November 2021, including several sheep.

A tribunal held into the dispute is still awaiting a ruling, after the hearing concluded last month.

But in the meantime, in a separate case, an ombudsman has ruled in Lady Ramshaw's favour after she complained about how the property was advertised.

The Property Ombudsman has ruled Starkings and Watson, which was instructed by the Cators to find a tenant, did not establish whether the property's energy certificate was valid at the time.

However, the ombudsman said the estate agent "did bring all relevant material information" to Lady Ramshaw's attention.

As such, it did not recommend she receive any compensation.

The dispute was over whether or not the period home was exempt from energy regulations due to its grade-II listing.

The Cator family believed it was and the agent took their word for it.

Chris Starkings, managing director of Starkings and Watson, said: "We have fully-cooperated with the Property Ombudsman and our regulators when we were made aware that the property in question was not correctly lodged as exempt from requiring an EPC.

"As such, we have changed our internal processes for properties like this where we are only instructed to find a tenant.

"We are pleased with the outcome, which concluded we fully admitted that the exemption wasn't correctly lodged, but that we did bring all relevant material information to the complainant's attention prior to this letting."

In the wider dispute, one of the sources of friction between landlord and tenant has been the menagerie of animals - including four pets dogs, two pigs and a small flock of sheep - the sexual advice guru moved into the property.

The tribunal heard the tenant was given permission to have "two dogs and some sheep" on the land - but that a full agreement about animal numbers was not signed.