The English Home

Ancient HEART

Tucked away behind a high hedge, in a historic Sussex village, Francesca Fudge’s eighteenth-century Grade II listed house, dating back to 1704, is easy to miss. “The house looks small from the outside, but inside it is deceptively spacious,” she says, “With three teenage children, we needed at least four bedrooms and plenty of space inside and out.”

When Francesca and her Canadian husband Brian moved into the house three years ago with children, Megan, 21, Amy, 17 and Alex, 16, they set about planning how to adapt it to

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