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    Back to the future

    Jun 02, 2021 3 minutes
    Photographs by Claire Takacs

    WITHIN a few years of buying Urchfont Manor in 2013, Chris Legg and Eleanor Jones, with the help of a friend, landscape architect Paul Gazerwitz, had given their home a new vista that unites house and garden, as well as evoking the formal Baroque of the house’s late-17th-century past. It is an inspired contemporary creation that is impressively in tune with the place’s historical zenith.

    From 1946 to 2012, Urchfont Manor had been owned by Wiltshire County Council and used as an adult

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