The English Home

MAKING HISTORY

‘I could see beyond the destruction and fell in love with both the beautiful rural setting and the fabulous proportions of the rooms’

Standing at the heart of a small picturesque village in Northamptonshire, Molly Robertson’s splendid Grade II listed manor house, approached by an impressive gravelled drive, seems to possess a distinctly French air, with its elegant symmetry and mullioned windows. The earliest records of the house date back to 1475, but the oldest parts of the present building are from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. “Most recent history has

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