Harmonious TONES

hen Eithne Hudson and her young family moved from a new-build in Essex, with a garden set on river clay, to their 1927 town villa in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, built on a former grazing common on sandstone, it was a complete change in many ways. ‘We had never had a house that needed work; this one was on a much larger scale and I remember how our dining table looked like a coffee table in the dining room. The house was solidly and beautifully built – the survey read like – and we were only the fourth family to have lived here. It took us 17 years to get it as we wanted; it was a labour of love,’ explains Eithne.