Wealden Times | WT164 | October 2015 | Food supplement inside

Expecting it to be quite dark with low ceilings,
typical of such old houses, Pennybridge surprises.
In the 1920s it was owned by a particularly
tall gentleman who decided to raise all the
ceilings on the ground floor to accommodate
his height. And then Peter and Jilly completed
the transformation by inviting an artist friend
to paint the blackened beams using a clever
trompe l’oeil technique so that they appear
sandblasted and the whole house is much lighter
and brighter than you would imagine...
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