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

This page: At the rear of the garden, Paul and Stephen have built a tiny and exquisite chapel in the Orthodox style, where mass is
sometimes said. With painted angels on a rich blue ground, a wealth of icons, censers, reliquaries and a central Madonna and Child,
it’s so beautiful and surprising
One floor up the grand wallpaper suddenly stops
and the walls become the same as the distemper
down on the kitchen floor – to denote that this
would once have been servants’ quarters.
Up here is Nanny Hawkins’ Room (named after the
nanny in Brideshead Revisited), a very cosy spot with pretty
floral wallpaper, where it would seem obligatory to wear
a bed jacket. Also on this floor is The School Room, a
twin-bedded room, with alphabet wallpaper, which can
be booked for family parties. Between them lie two of my
favourite spots in the whole house – two bathrooms it’s
hard to believe haven’t always been there, they are so
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