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Elegance and eccentricity

Wiltshire, £2 million

uilt in 1824 by Robert Abraham as a Protestant Free School, The Lodge in Mildenhall has since been converted into a tasteful and distinctive four-bedroom home in the shape of the Cross. The village of Mildenhall is something of an idyll itself, surrounded by the North Wessex Downs AONB, on the River Kennet and only a mile away from the market town of Marlborough. The entrance to the house is situated in the central

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