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INSIDE STORY

INSIDE STORY
This elegant country home came with extra responsibilities – adiary full of guest bookings and ten rooms to update. Undaunted, Amanda and Peter Jaques-Walker worked hard to give the house a glamorous new look

From the moment you step into the stained-glass porch at Brownber Hall you feel at home, with a magical sense that you’ve visited before. That is unlikely, however, because in its heyday, the hall was the centrepiece of a one thousand acre estate that was broken up in the early 1950s. Since then, it has been a care home and later

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