Country Homes & Interiors

CELEBRATION BY THE SEA

Nestled in the lee of the village church and with views out onto the winter-grey Atlantic, Katharine Pooley’s North Devon cottage is a special place to spend Christmas. ‘It was in a state when I first saw it and my husband was horrified. But I knew I could make it right for us,’ she says.

The house had previously been divided up by a property developer and the result was a disjointed space

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