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Gathic REVIVAL

‘It was the perfect opportunity to use everything that I adore in one big swoop’

ne spring day, interior designer Nels Crosthwaite Eyre and her husband Antony Lamb visited an 18th-century manor in an agricultural hamlet a couple of miles from the market town of Stockbridge in Hampshire. Set in 10 acres, it was flush with wisteria and Nels “just fell in love with the Gothic windows at the front – I thought they were so unusual”. She immediately declared her desire to live there, while Antony was not so sure. “I fell in love with it instantly,” she

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