Ideal Home

PICTURE perfect

A house is a LIVING thing and I’m forever CHANGING things. I don’t think it will ever be finished, but we are so LUCKY and grateful to live here
NELLIE SHEPHERD, HOMEOWNER

HOME NOTES

WHO LIVES HERE?

Artist Nellie Shepherd and husband Andy Charlton, a physicist at Oxford University, as well as a menagerie of animals, including cats, dogs, sheep and chickens.

THE PROPERTY

A renovated six-bedroom farmhouse set in seven acres in

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