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    Pleasing SYMMETRY

    Jul 06, 2022 4 minutes
    FEATURE HUGH ST CLAIR & CLAIR WAYMAN
    PHOTOGRAPHY ANDREAS VON EINSIEDEL

    Back in 1992, it was with some trepidation that newlyweds Anna and Adam Dixon-Smith left their flat in Notting Hill for life in the Suffolk countryside. Setting up home in a chilly, 16th-century, timber-framed manor house was quite daunting at first, but the couple set to work breathing new life into the historic building, and as their family grew – they have four sons, now all adult – the house evolved.

    “It felt quite bleak when we first arrived – we were rattling around in it but also excited by such an irresistible challenge,” explains Anna. “Coming from

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