Wealden Times | WT182 | April 2017 | Gardens supplement inside

Above: The two guest rooms, in the original south side of the house, are packed with more found treasures. In the pink bedroom, hat
pins, hat boxes, Victorian laced boots, tiaras and bow ties share space on top of a chest of drawers
enticing if a stylist had laboured over the arrangement for
hours. I try on a Jackie O style pillbox and immediately feel
I could mingle convincingly at a royal wedding. “That style
is very good for ladies who travel,” says Adrian, adjusting
it to fit perfectly on my head, “because they can put it in
a cake tin in their luggage and it won’t get squashed…”
Tearing ourselves away from that bounty, we head
upstairs, my head swivelling to look at all the interesting
things – not least their many collections, of egg cups,
cruet sets, German bottle stoppers and the biggest,
Adrian’s ongoing collection of silver nail buffers.
With the second storey of the extension there are
now four bedrooms, each with its own special character.
Adrian and Sven’s room has a genteel Edwardian
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