The English Home

LIVING HISTORY

Many wish lists for idyllic Christmas settings would include a sweeping staircase to garland, a convivial kitchen, wood fires, a huge table to seat all the family for a lively festive meal and a location that could only get more magical if it snowed. With Georgian proportions and elegantly informal interiors, Bracon Hall certainly lives up to that dream.

Home to Humphrey and Charlotte Berney, their daughters Ottilie, six, and Cecilia, four, and two family dogs, the property sits within its own 400-acre-estate. Open skies above flat Norfolk countryside mean that as darkness falls, there is no light pollution to compete with the twinkle of

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