‘When I was looking at a lot of historic country houses, I noticed that a number of them had this specific yellow in the entrance’
ituated in a small village on the border between Suffolk and Essex, this Victorian former rectory stands on the site of a 16th-century parsonage and is still partially surrounded by a moat dating back to that time. Its current owners, Alison and James Nicholls, have spent the last two years nurturing the Italianate style building back to life. “It was quite an austere house and James, who grew up in this village, remembers being scared of it as a
