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A COUNTRY CELEBRATION

Taking one room at a time, Peta and Ivor Darnley worked their way through The Freeth, a Grade IIlisted Herefordshire farmhouse and barn, restoring and updating as they went. The house has undergone a total transformation in the couple’s capable hands. They have not only sensitively and authentically restored the virtually derelict 15th-century farmhouse, but have also joined it to an adjacent barn to create a stunning family home of grand proportions.

‘When we bought the dilapidated property in

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