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    Palladian PARADISE

    Jun 01, 2022 4 minutes
    FEATURE & STYLING COSMO BROCKWAY
    PHOTOGRAPHY JAMES MCDONALD

    Imagine suddenly inheriting a house that is second only in size to Blenheim Palace in its home county of Oxfordshire. This astonishing turn of fate is exactly what happened to Peter and Eleanor Buxton. Although ensconced in Wiltshire, the duo were remarkably unperturbed by the idea of uprooting across the country and taking on Kirtlington Park, a Palladian jewel left to them by a bachelor cousin who had brought the enormous pile back to life.

    ‘One by one we had to breathe new life into the State Rooms. Above all we wanted to get light and life back in to the house’

    With the gung-ho attitude that sums up the

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