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A CHANGE OF PACE

THE STORY

OWNERS Sarah Jane Chapman, strategic communications consultant and writer, and her husband Robin, solicitor, chartered accountant and iced tea entrepreneur, live here with their three children, Constance, 12, Beatrix, 11, and Albert, 10. The family also has a flock of hens, three ponies, and a cocker spaniel called Boris

PROPERTY An unlisted six bedroom Georgian rectory in the Dorset countryside with early Victorian additions

Turned a self-contained flat into a laundry, boot room, larder, and storeroom. They also restored

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