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    And the rest is history

    Jul 20, 2022 4 minutes
    Penny Churchill

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    BUILT by a young Edwin Lutyens for garden designer Gertrude Jekyll in 1896–97, Munstead Wood at Busbridge, near Godalming in the Surrey Hills AONB, was the first of more than 100 major collaborations between Lutyens and Jekyll that have graced the pages of COUNTRY LIFE since the magazine’s founder, Edward Hudson, visited in 1899.

    For sale for the first time in more than 50 years at a guide price of £5.25 million through Knight Frank, Grade I-listed Munstead Wood, with its trademark long roofs, dormers, tall ornamental chimneys and ‘Surrey-style’ Artsand-Crafts interior, is widely regarded as one of Lutyens’s most important country houses. Its just

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