Surrey Homes | SH36 | October 2017 | Kitchen & Bathroom supplement inside
The lifestyle magazine for Surrey - Inspirational Interiors, Fabulous Fashion, Delicious Dishes
The lifestyle magazine for Surrey - Inspirational Interiors, Fabulous Fashion, Delicious Dishes
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This page: In the large kitchen, ironed cotton sheets hang<br />
on wooden hoist and spindle airers<br />
It felt as though the clock had stopped at<br />
midnight on December 31st 1899.<br />
This impression heightened as we passed a dumb<br />
waiter and a board of servants’ bells in a flagged hallway,<br />
patchworked with old Persian rugs, and went into the<br />
large kitchen, where ironed cotton sheets hung on<br />
wooden hoist and spindle airers and the cook’s labours<br />
were apparent on a scrubbed deal kitchen table.<br />
When one of the house’s owners, Paul Oxborrow,<br />
appeared in the doorway from the garden I was still<br />
lost for words, gazing around at the lace-trimmed<br />
cloth atop the mantelpiece – complete with a pair<br />
<br />
53 surrey-homes.co.uk
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