THE spring selling season kicks off in some style with the launch onto the market of two enchanting country houses set in prime Home Counties locations, one an early collaboration between Lutyens and Jekyll, the other once linked to a Rothschild family estate.
The timber-framed core of Grade II-listed Winkworth Farm at Hascombe, in the redesignated Surrey Hills National Landscape, two miles from Godalming and eight miles from Guildford, dates from the mid 1500s. It started out as a prosperous yeoman’s house and was occupied by yeomen farmers until the death of the last of these, John Baxter, in 1837.
For the next 70-odd years, the house was divided up and used by farm labourers and their families.
