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Jane Austen home opens to public for first time

The house where Jane Austen lived for the final weeks of her life has been opened to the public for the first time.

The novelist lived in a home on College Street, Winchester, until her death on the 18 July 1817.

Winchester College has opened the house to the public as part of the global celebrations to mark 250 years since Austen was born.

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