Period Living

A FAMILY AFFAIR

Dating back to the 16th century, floral stylist Willow Crossley’s Grade II-listed extended cottage is a wonderful ‘mishmash’, as she describes. ‘It’s very higgledy-piggledy and wonky. The walls and doors are anything but straight, but it has so much character.’ The Cotswold stone building near Woodstock in Oxfordshire, where she lives with her family, has been enlarged and added to over time, culminating in a floor plan that is dizzying to behold.

Willow and her husband, Charlie, relocated to the countryside 12 years ago after living in the

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