The English Home

Sense of BELONGING

Hidden down a quiet country lane, in a sleepy Gloucestershire hamlet, Foxcote Grange has a welcoming charm. Fragrant clematis, honeysuckle and wisteria cover the rambling Cotswold-stone house, which looks out over tranquil landscaped gardens.

Current owner Gilly Miller was a teenager when her mother bought the seventeenth-century Grade II listed house in 1959 from Judge Elder-Jones, who had inherited the property from his uncle, who had purchased it in 1925. With only one change of ownership in the last 95 years the house has been carefully maintained.

“We looked up the deeds recently and part of the conditions of sale was that

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