Houses are often found by serendipitous chance and one classic example of this is the story of how Lucinda and James Bruce came to live at their Wiltshire home. “We had been renting an estate cottage as a bolthole in the early days of our marriage,” says Lucinda. “My husband, James, had always loved the ‘big house’, but never did we imagine that the chance would one day come to call it our own.”
The ‘big house’ in question is a William and Mary manor, deep in a Wiltshire valley, on the site of an old Roman settlement. The classic Palladian facade, with its quintessentially English charm, gives a clue, a bible of period architecture, and Dame Vivienne Westwood coveted it once upon a time,” she finishes with a laugh.
