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Artists in RESIDENCE

Caroline Wiseman was enjoying her morning dip in the sea off Aldeburgh in Suffolk, and admiring the two brick towers that once served as sailors’ lookouts, when she had an epiphany.

‘I noticed a ‘For sale’ sign on the south tower and I fell into a reverie about how it would make a wonderful place for artists to work.’ When the owner suggested that Caroline might also like to buy his 18th-century house, which sits behind the tower, she jettisoned all caution and said yes. ‘I’d been looking for somewhere to buy,’

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