The English Home

COUNTRY ESCAPE

Prompted by a desire to give their young son Harrison a wholesome country upbringing, film producer and designer Jessica Miller and her actor husband, Ben, decided to take the leap and leave London in 2014. The couple initially enlisted the help of a buying agent to find a property in Oxfordshire, where friends had relocated, but none of the houses felt right. Then, by chance, flicking through the pages of a magazine, Jessica’s mother spotted a beautiful Arts and Crafts house in Gloucestershire that had just come on the market.

“When we first viewed the house, I remember being struck by the wonderful sense of flow,” Jessica says.

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