Wealden Times | WT265 | June 2024 | Education Supplement inside

This page: The capacious main suite is designed around a
central pillar, allowing the bedroom, bathroom and dressing
room to be interconnected. The swallow wallpaper behind
the bed is by Designer’s Guild
in the downstairs loo, in a different colourway. The brass fish
towel rail has my symptoms blazing but may be hard to come
by, being part of the old house. It is one of many original
features that Angela has painstakingly included to ensure that,
even after the mammoth renovation process, it still feels like a
period house. The piece of timber used for the coat hooks in
the cloakroom is actually the original door bars from the front
door. The panelling underneath the coats is original. There is
even a framed picture on the wall containing a piece of original
floorboard. Angela explains, “One of the builders that worked
on building the (original) house was obviously a bit of an
amateur poet, and he had written a limerick on the floorboard.
We found it when the floorboard came up and it‘s part of the
history of the house, so it’s still here.” The scale of upheaval
clearly did not preclude attention to detail. “It was a really big
project. The roof came off. Hurstmore took out every window,
every door. They pulled up the floorboards and stripped back
every bit of plaster and left a brick shell basically, so in lots
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