Returning to live in your childhood home might seem a daunting prospect, but it is a situation Henry Crawley has embraced with creative energy. His parents moved to Hunworth Hall near Holt in Norfolk in 1965 and, after leaving to study medicine, Henry returned to take up his post as a GP in 1982 with his wife, Charlotte.
The 17th-century house with its Dutch-inspired gables came with a two-and-a-half acre walled garden. This had been divided into a working vegetable garden, hidden behind a beech hedge at the rear, and a lawned paddock close to the house, where Henry’s parents had kept goats and chickens. Despite being a busy doctor and raising his own family, Henry had big plans for the space. “You always have such enthusiasm for
