Wealden Times | WT179 | January 2017 | Health & Beauty supplement inside

This page: The master ‘suite’ on the top floor comprises master
bedroom with en suite, and dressing room
its ancient bricks and woodwork a feature in themselves.
Upstairs, fans of classic Wealden buildings are in for
a treat, as the eye is led upwards by the most enormous
chimney of local brick and lime mortar which juts into
the roof space – and the master ‘suite’ on the top floor.
Comprising master bedroom with en suite, ‘handbag
wall’ (Ally’s) and dressing room (Fergus’s) the top
floor is reached by a narrow and characterful wooden
staircase which clings to the side of the chimney.
A water tank was removed to make room for Fergus’s
dressing room, and has fitted cupboards – with fabric
and chicken-wire fronts – in every unused space. “I’m
good at organising spaces,” says Ally, with justifiable
confidence. “Your house will feel twice the size, if
organised properly,” she says, while rearranging her
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