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    Family AFFAIR

    Mar 03, 2021 3 minutes
    FEATURE CHRISTINE STOVELL ADDITIONAL STYLING CLAIR WAYMAN PHOTOGRAPHY NICK SMITH

    In a rapidly changing world, a sense of continuity can be easily lost. However, for architectural heritage consultant Robyn Christie and her family, a picturesque eighteenth-century thatched cottage in a small Oxfordshire village has provided an anchor of stability, having passed from one generation to the next over the course of a 100 years.

    ‘With the blessing of my three siblings, my husband Peter and I decided to purchase the cottage and keep it in the family’

    “My mother and her sister, Ruth, inherited the cottage from their aunt,” explains current owner and custodian,

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