Wealden Times | WT170 | April 2016 | Garden supplement inside

Above left: At the heart of this modern rectory-style home is a dramatic entrance hall, flooded with light and filled with furniture that befits the Georgian era
Above right: It is almost impossible to stand in the hall and not be tempted to look up three floors to the sky overhead. The effect is magnetising
Another corridor from the kitchen curves off towards
the hall, with a study and cloakroom leading off it. All
the joinery in the house was carried out by Westgate
Joinery from Hailsham and it is impressive just how
much effort they put into ensuring the proportions
and detail so obsessed over by the Georgians were
meticulously replicated in this modern house. All
the skirting boards, architraves and door panels are
completely correct and they even went to the effort
of making the curved door to the cloakroom in the
traditional fashion of bending it round a wooden barrel.
The study is painted in Farrow & Ball Chinese Red,
a striking colour that really works and is the perfect
backdrop for the oak bookcases, dark leather chairs and
period oil painting sourced from Phoenix Antiques.
Beyond the study you come to a wide entrance hall. As
you enter the house from the front door, not only are you
confronted by the magnificent view framed by the rear
door but also the staircase. The oak staircase winds up
through the first and second floors with a glass cupola at
the top throwing down rays of natural light. From the hall
we came to the room that was top of Helena’s wish list:
As you enter the house, not only are you confronted by the magnificent view, but also by the
stairs. An oak staircase winds up through the first and second floors, with a glass cupola at the top
throwing down rays of natural light
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