English Cottage 2023

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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Phyllis Hoffman DePiano EDITOR Melissa Lester SENIOR WRITER Karen Callaway ASSOCIATE EDITOR Leslie Bennett Smith ASSISTANT EDITOR Kassidy Abernathy COPY EDITOR Michele Moore EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Lydia McMullen CREATIVE DIRECTOR/PHOTOGR
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Editor’s Letter
This Victoria Classics issue, a perennial favorite among our readers, evokes the settings of books that enthralled me as a child. C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia series piqued my interest in seeking passage to a world of wonder, such as the magica
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The Call of Country Life
Lucy and Andy Orr were living in a farmhouse near Bodmin Moor in Cornwall while running a holiday-cottage venture when they decided to sell the business so Andy could start his own brewery. A friend mentioned that an old stone house on the nearby Hel
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Where Heritage Mingles
Soon after retiring from an interior design career, Sylvie Mills and her husband, Robin, moved from a large estate on his family’s ancestral lands bordering Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire to a smaller structure on the same acreage, with dreams of op
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Breathing New Life
Sheila New has restored sixteen homes during her lifetime, and after six years on the Dorset coast, she decided it was time to move again. This time, the interior designer’s search would be for a quaint property that wouldn’t be too much to manage. W
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A Home for All Seasons
After spending years transforming an old stone barn into a beloved family home, Sarah Lamb was quite hesitant to move. But circumstances were changing, and she wished to relocate closer to her children’s schools. “In my heart of hearts, I thought we
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From Coast to Countryside
After selling their seaside apartment in Exmouth, England, Christina and Nigel Dickinson had their sights set on retreating to the quiet milieus of the countryside. Originally searching for a rental with no commitment, the couple couldn’t resist the
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To See It Through
After renovating a house on Guernsey and a listed cottage in Wiltshire, Geraldine and John Whittaker were experienced in breathing life into historic properties. Still, nothing could have prepared them for what lay ahead when they bought this eightee
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A View to Infinity
When Claire and Rob Merriman were looking for their dream home, the pair spent many a weekend poring over maps to find a place that fulfilled their greatest wish: a property that offered wide-open vistas overlooking rolling fields and farmland. “We d
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Credits, Where to Shop & Buy
EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTORS ANNE ARMSTRONG: Pages 19–30 SARA BIRD: Pages 71–82 JANE BOWLES: Pages 61–70 HEATHER DIXON: Pages: 43–50 PAT GARRATT: Pages 9–18 and 31–42 RICHARD WEBBER: Pages 51–60 CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS DAN DUCHARS: Pages 71–82 DAVID GIL
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Better Together
When Elizabeth Hunt and her late husband, Anthony, first came across a pair of circa 1660 laborers’ cottages in Withyham, East Sussex, they were decidedly underwhelmed. “It was not love at first sight,” she relates. “The rooms were small and poky and

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