Wealden Times | WT188 | October 2017 | Kitchen & Bathroom supplement inside

This page: The studio, at the end of the house, offers the perfect
space for Dave to create his rural and village street scenes and Sue
her portraits and life drawings
says Sue. They are not linked to a particular gallery, but Dave
is exhibiting at the Cranbrook Art Show and they will also be
exhibiting at the art show within Goudhurst Flower Festival.
The original farm buildings were constructed in 1912,
falling into a state of disrepair for many years before they
were converted into dwellings. They were the first people
to occupy the building as a family home, relocating to
Goudhurst from the suburbs of London when their two
daughters were small. “All our family were down here really,
my mother lived at Scotney Castle,” says Sue. “It made sense
– and,” she adds, “moving from a school of 3,000 pupils
to a smaller environment was good too.” It was obviously a
good move, as they’ve lived here now for twenty-nine years.
Sitting in the kitchen I can’t help but notice the large
post to one side of me – and then later, as we look around,
I can see others running in parallel down the length of
the house and start to see how the building was adapted.
“You can see where the original walls were for the cattle,”
says Dave, describing how there was a central walkway
with partitioned stalls on either side all the way down the
building. This explains the structural posts, which are
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