Surrey Homes | SH27 | January 2017 | Health & Beauty supplement inside

This page: The master ‘suite’ on the top floor comprises master
bedroom with en suite, and dressing room
“We’ve got most sports covered! Tabby loves riding, Finnbhar
is into adrenaline sports including kayaking and mountainbiking,
and Jonjo tennis, golf, cricket... then there’s kite
surfing, scuba, shooting...” The photos continue next door,
in the magnificent dining room, although an impressive
oil painting – a portrait of a 19th-century lady in an offthe-shoulder
gown – is the first thing to catch your eye.
Equally eye-catching are the upholstered dining chairs
which surround an antique refectory table, each in an entirely
different African fabric. The startlingly bright patterns of
the chairs are set off by dark grey paintwork on the walls
and bookcases – though Ally has managed to keep the room
from feeling dark and oppressive by painting the ceiling and
its beams off-white. Another huge inglenook dominates one
side of the room but has been left relatively unadorned – 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
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