‘I wanted to highlight the enfilade aspect of the linking ground floor rooms, ensuring the decor didn’t detract from the beautiful view’
A French-style hunting lodge is not the usual architecture for rural Essex, but hidden down winding, wooded lanes lies a house with unmistakable Gallic features. At the end of an espaliered-lime avenue and overlooking a sweeping valley, this house has had an injection of joie de vivre from its owners, who could not wait to start renovating when they bought the property five years ago.
At the time, Victoria Single and her husband were living overseas, making property hunting tricky. “The agents soon knew how serious
