‘It felt so peaceful, so enveloping. I could see myself moving in and perhaps never leaving’
Hidden behind a high stone wall in a sleepy Cotswold village is a house the owner, Bee van Zuylen, calls an “enigma”. She describes it thus because its unassuming setting – tucked away and low down – and its nondescript facade give no clue to the delights that await within.
Bee herself, surely one of the most colourful characters in this most traditional of villages, exudes all the warmth and charm that comes from a life very well lived. Born in Paris to Anglo-American parents, her first taste of the English countryside that
