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Contents

July 2018

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HEAVENLY HAVENS

Maggie Alderson selects this

month’s dream properties

NOTEBOOK

Our top events to put in

your diary this month

GOD’S ACRE

A vibrant revamp of a

rambling old rectory

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MIDSUMMER FLAIR

Kate Watts styles summery

frocks at our Midsummer Fair

SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL

Josephine Fairley finds petite

beauty buys to travel with

A YEAR OF WELLNESS

Eminé Rushton keeps your skin

safe for summer

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SWIM TIME

Pools that are built to suit the

Great British climate (even

when it’s not so great)

BIG IS BEAUTIFUL

Sue Whigham shares her

love of large leaves

SCHOOL’S OUT!

Hilary Wilce on summer holidays

GET THE LOOK

Products to help you steal

the rectory’s style

HOUSE OF SCARVES

See inside the home of textile

designer Melanie Laslett

GET THE LOOK

A guide to imitating the lovely

Melanie’s unique aesthetic

WEALDEN TIMES

MIDSUMMER FAIR 2018

A look back at our biggest

ever Midsummer Fair

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TOOTH WISDOM

Dentist’s tips to keep you

smiling through the years

CHEF’S HOME COOKING

Find out what chef Toby

Welfare cooks for his family

when he’s off duty

PORTRAIT OF A GARDEN

Jo Arnell muses on a year in

the life of Great Dixter

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WHAT’S ON

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tractors in the Young Drivers Zone or in

the play barn. Other features include the

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The award-winning Hobbledown is also in

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Hobbledown is home to an array of

farmyard animals living in harmony with

exotic species such as camels, wallabies

and meerkats. The activities centre

keeps its schedule varied meaning no

two visits are ever the same. A standout

opportunity, perfect for a birthday

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experience. This gives children the

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with the animals and get a hands-on

experience. To keep energy levels high,

the menu has been revamped to serve

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Take your day out into the evening at

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Bill’s just around the corner. The main

auditorium of the Playhouse seats up

to 450 people and is a favourite with

touring pantomimes, comedians and

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three and four bedroom modern houses

all designed with stylish kitchens featuring

integrated appliances. These houses

range from £775,000 to £945,000 and the

show home is available to view Thursday

– Monday, 10am-5pm. Meanwhile, The

Bramblings is a collection of 8 four and

five bedroom detached houses situated

on an exclusive private cul-de-sac, ranging

from £699,950 to £885,000. The show

home will be opening in Autumn 2018.

Both developments are around ten minutes

from Epsom Town Centre making them a

great investment for your family’s future.

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Lyme Regis Road,

Banstead, Surrey

Situated a short distance

from the popular village

of Banstead and with

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Brighton Road this one

bedroom first floor flat is

considered ideal for owner

occupation or investment.

Now in need of

modernisation and

refurbishment the property

offers well proportioned

living accommodation

with loft access and rear

staircase leading to a

private rear garden. epc:e

Guide: £220-225,000*

+ fees

Hailsham Road, Heathfield

A fabulous freehold detached cottage with tile hung elevations

and off road parking now requiring complete modernisation

and refurbishment. The main cottage is arranged with living

accommodation over two floors in addition to a later single storey

extension providing two further rooms. epc:tbc

Guide: £170-180,000* + fees

High Street, Pevensey

A unique opportunity to acquire this substantial property situated

within the historic village of Pevensey. To the rear of the site

you will find later additions to the building including a Victorian

Orangery and large warehouse/showrooms. There is also a

large detached garage/workshop outside of the property. epc:g

Guide: £450,000 Plus* + fees

Portland Road, Hove

We are pleased to offer

this first floor two bedroom

flat with shared garden

occupying the whole of the

first floor of this converted

two storey bay fronted

property situated on the

north side of Portland road.

The property provides light

and spacious living and

may be suitable for possible

reconfiguration to provide

additional accommodation,

subject to consents

being obtainable. epc:f

Guide: £200-225,000*

+ fees

Guides are provided as an indication of each Seller’s minimum expectation. They are not necessarily figures which a property will sell for

and may change at any time prior to Auction. Unless stated otherwise, each Lot will be offered subject to a reserve (a figure below which the

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Maggie Alderson picks three stunning homes now on the market

Pinewood

The dream: A sentence from the

brochure will give you the flavour of

this extraordinary house: “There is a

unique hand-painted ceiling with 24k

gold leaf, crafted by the famous Austrian

decorator, Peter Stoff, who also restored

the interiors of Buckingham Palace and

the Palace of Sultan Brunei.” The Grade

II listed Jacobean revival mansion was

built in 1880 and comprehensively

renovated in 2012, adding modern

facilities without compromising period

detail. There’s an extension housing a

spectacular pool and gym, with a viewobserving

party platform roof.

Where: Oxshott, described in the

brochure as “the most expensive village

in England and the premier address

for top footballers and other sporting

celebrities”.

Setting: Wooded landscape for miles.

Beds: 9 Baths: 9

Special features: A lift from the

underground parking to all four floors.

A Wendy house in the same style as the

mansion, that’s big enough to live in.

Pleasing details: Original Pre-Raphaelite

bas-reliefs and plastered ceiling.

Outside: A stunning outdoor pool

in formal landscaping, 360 degrees

panoramic views. A lot of car parking.

Time to town: “40 minutes from

Piccadilly.”

Price: £14,500,000

Agent: Sotheby’s International Realty

01932 860537 sothebysrealty.co.uk

surrey-homes.co.uk

Gore’s Farm

£2,500,000

The dream: Timber clad, with a traditional

red-tiled roof, this is the full rambling

beamy dream, but with none of the closedin

feeling that can come with historic

houses of the genre. This timber-framed

house was built in 2007 and combines

modern features with the warmth of wood.

There’s a glass-sided open staircase and the

galleried dining room has a vaulted ceiling.

Where: Four-and-a-half miles from

Guildford, on the outskirts of the village of

Puttenham.

Setting: Tranquil countryside, with farreaching

views.

Beds: 5 Baths: 4

Special features: Stabling for ten horses.

Pleasing details: Cinema room, music

room, boot room, library, larder…

Outside: Eight acres of beautifully

landscaped gardens.

Time to town: A crisp 35 minutes from

Guildford to Waterloo on the fast train.

Price: £2,500,000

Agent: Savills Guildford 01483 796820

savills.com

Plot 2, Highfield

£1,795,000

The dream: Farmhouse-style architecture in a

new build, so you get all the ideals of modern

family life – two-car integral garage, a media

room and a very large kitchen/family area

opening onto a breakfast area with French

windows to the garden, plus a master suite with

a dressing room – without having to do the

renovation from hell. In a gated development.

Where: Just outside the village of Lingfield.

Setting: Rolling countryside, between two areas

of outstanding natural beauty.

Beds: 5 Baths: 5

Special features: A very large master suite with

its own balcony.

Pleasing details: Jolly handy for Lingfield Park

racecourse if you like the gee-gees.

Outside: Laid to lawn with some planting at

the front, more lawn at the back.

Time to town: Trains from Lingfield to

Victoria in under an hour.

Price: £1,795,000

Agent: Hamptons 01342 393034

hamptons.co.uk

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Previous page: The dining room is painted in Thai Sapphire

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Looking through to the back kitchen

Every house has a story – but it’s very rare to find one

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nice to have a lake at the end of the garden so you could

have a swim in the morning?’…”

A treasure hunt of houses began with the first one,

while being in entirely the wrong spot, too close to the

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Left and below: The first glimpse of Jane’s extensive collection

of Murano glass in the main hall. The ebony console table is by

Gareth Neal

motorway, opening up the idea of the perfect proportions of a

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“I had always said I couldn’t retire to the country,” says

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building, with parts dating back to the 13th century, with

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Above: The dining room viewed from the other end, showing the second Isabel Bannerman photograph over 12 figures of Chinese

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This page: The wonderful pea green paint in John’s study also by

Little Greene. The curtain fabric is by Lacroix. John’s computer

is cleverly hidden behind doors in the bookshelves. The Chinese

porcelain Foo Dogs – or ‘guardian lions’ – on the mantelpiece are

another of Jane’s favourite things to collect

features, the shutters and the windows.”

Sitting with us at the table is another important

character in the story of the rectory, Mark Howorth

of the London-based interior and architectural design

company, Callender Howorth, who worked with Jane

and John previously on their London house and Kent

cottage, and played a big part in the décor of the rectory.

“Kitchens are normally very utilitarian,” he says. “But

this is more of a gallery of Jane’s lifetime collection of glass.

That’s why it is so much fun working with her. It’s all

about colour, texture, pattern. Jane will have an idea that

sparks something in our team, it’s very collaborative.’

This made it the perfect point for us to go and explore

what that collaboration has created, which turned out to

be more of an expedition than a house tour, as I filled 30

pages of my large notebook, with frantic scribbling.

It is truly rambling, with a back staircase up to the

mansard-roofed old wing of the house as well as the grand

one opposite the front door, and six to 12 bedrooms…

“depending how you look at it,” says John. I also lost count

of the number of bathrooms and can only remember that

they were all big and they were all fabulous and I wanted

to have a long leisurely bath in every one of them.

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Left: The walls in the ‘blackboard loo’ have

been enthusiastically graffitied by the whole

family Above: The loo window is filled with

coloured Duralex tumblers, reflected in the

mirror on the window sill

But while it is a very large and varied house, it is unified in

character, all brought together by the owners’ personalities,

interests and collections, with various themes linking it all

together, cleverly merged into context by Mark’s input.

One of the themes is peacock feathers, which I first notice

on the decorative screen in the grand drawing room, in fabric

sourced by Mark. Later on I spot them again on the other

side of the house in the snug – a cosy TV room – where they

appear in a beautiful mosaic table by glass artist Nikki Ella

Whitlock, one of many craft makers Jane follows and collects.

And when, at the end of the house tour (several hours

later…) we returned to the kitchen, I spotted the peacock

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“There is something peacock in every room…” said Jane,

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set off to the top of the house again to find them all, and I

would have been quite happy to have done so, being by that

point as much in love with a house as it’s possible to be.”

The magic starts in the hallway, where the glass collection

– as seen in the kitchen - comes into glorious focus in a

brightly coloured group of stunning hand-blown pieces of

Murano glass, collected over many years of visiting Venice.

(Clearly a special place to Jane and John, who have decorated

one of the guest bedrooms in tribute to it, with Venetian

scene curtains and some splendid Venetian glass mirrors.)

But back to the hall – although it is hard to

maintain your focus in a house where there are just

so many amazing things in every room, from groups

of interesting objects masterfully arranged, to the

wonderfully bold colours on the walls and curtains.

The first collection of glass you see on entering the house

sits on a console table made out of ebony by woodworker

Gareth Neal, combining classic forms used in antique

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– and I mean, many - pieces in the house sourced from the

Contemporary Applied Arts (CAA) gallery on the South Bank.

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into three tables as people gave her presents for it. Below: The first room we visit upstairs is Jane’s library, lined with books, many of

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Indeed, I found it hard to tear myself away from some of

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room, across the hall from the sitting room, were four I found

particularly captivating, each very different in character.

Against the far wall, is a row of a dozen green figures

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On the other side of the room, on top of a matching console

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The third arrangement is on top of the mantelpiece, the fourth

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But while I had to drag myself from what legendary

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with more chinoiserie and a detail of her very

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collection of crystals

“I told Mark I wanted colour and he came up with this

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“You made me brave,” adds Jane.

“We did push you a bit…” laughs Mark.

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are the antiqued mirror panels on the back wall.

“The premise of designing this house,’”says Mark, “was

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over the years, while working within the listed status.

“Because of the scale of the dining room – it really is

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with the idea of the antiqued mirror. But we had to be very

careful to get the balance right, not to be garish. It had

to be the right level of patina and the right scale. Because

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and that’s perfect, it looks like it’s been there 250 years.”

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reflect its perfect Georgian symmetry, with four doors, two

windows and two facing console tables. Then there is the

brilliant touch of unmatching dining chairs. Mixed in with

eight antique chairs are four modern iron ones, from Oka.

The colour and drama continues when you step through

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green paint standing out thrillingly next to the purple of

the dining room. This one is also by Little Greene, called

Phthalo Green. “It has the exact brightness, intensity and

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Jane’s touch sings out from an arrangement of Chinese

guardian lions – ‘Foo Dogs’ – on the mantelpiece, who look

very much a family group. “I like tableaux,” she explains. She’s

certainly brilliant at creating them.

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Above left and right: Another book cover artwork by the

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Below: A mounted unicorn head from Rockett St George

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“It started as one shelf,” she says. “People give me presents...”

It’s a collection you could spend an afternoon

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red stair carpet – Mark’s choice to extend the bold

colour of the ground floor rooms to the upper floor – to

examine the bedrooms was enough to tear me away.

But the first room we visit up there is not a bedroom, it’s

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editions, that I never wanted to leave. With a chandelier

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floorboards, sloping endearingly downhill, it’s a haven.

Next door is another loo, also fitted out Jane style. There is

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naughty) book cover artworks by the artists known as the

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“I love the fact that when we are in the cottage,

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This page: The main bedroom. The ladder, above, is from Eras

of Style and displays some of Melanie’s fabric designs for Laslett

England

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This page: The spare bedroom has views over the Old Town.

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Above: Melanie left the lovely worn paint on the wooden stairs. The bathroom to the right was created in what was

the third bedroom

adaption was to create a dream bathroom.

“That was the first room to be completed – and it’s

still my favourite,” she says. “I always wanted a bathtub

that had a fabulous view… In the evening, I can look

out over Old Town and the twinkling lights of West

Hill while I soak in my tub. It really is perfect.”

The original bathroom was downstairs, so it made sense

to repurpose one of the three bedrooms. She installed a

separate shower, then hunted for her dream freestanding

bath, which she found at The Bath Store. The tub sits on a

slighted raised plinth of grey and white patterned Moroccanstyle

ceramic tiles, while the rest of the room has original

Victorian floorboards, which have been sanded and varnished.

“I love introducing a focal point with pattern, rather

than using it everywhere,” she says, her textile design

and pattern-making background coming to the fore.

The master bedroom window also benefits from views,

looking out over the garden and up to the country park.

“We can sit in bed with our morning cups of tea and gaze

out – and whatever time of year it is, the view is never bleak.”

This room has plenty of Melanie’s signature pops of

pattern. A plump, floral print eiderdown, another of her

vintage buys, resides at the foot of an M&S iron bed and

a black and white optical print woven rug from John

Lewis sits comfortably on stripped pine floorboards.

Propped up against the side of the wardrobe is a vintage

wooden ladder from Eras of Style in Bexhill, used to display

samples of Melanie’s own textiles and scarves and some of

her favourite finds. Bedlinen is neatly stored in a 1940s

tallboy, another bargain from a secondhand shop in Bexhill,

a favourite hunting ground for retro furniture and fabric.

Like the bathroom, the guest bedroom has a vantage

point over the Old Town and is one of the few rooms that

has curtains – the rest have shutters. The room oozes calm

and although it’s undoubtedly minimalist, it still has a

cosy feel, with a perfect ‘mismatch’ of pattern and print.

Under the window, there’s a secondhand ottoman

which was transformed from a dusky ‘old-lady’ pink

to a cool khaki with spray paint, then re-upholstered

in classic Marimekko floral fabric. A chest of drawers

from Browsers, one of Hastings’ best-loved secondhand

shops, was painted with Annie Sloan chalk paint,

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This page: The front door

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Downstairs, the living room/office and kitchen/dining

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“When I first arrived, the main room was already knocked

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dining area and a skylight fitted to introduce yet more light.

Slate grey kitchen units from Jewsons were cleverly

customised by Melanie’s uncle and their modern, no-nonsense

utilitarian feel is softened by quartz sandstone worktops.

“The quartz adds a bit of sparkle and glamour,” she

says. Her signature pop of pattern is present in the form of

Moroccan jewel-coloured encaustic tiles sourced in London.

“I laid them out like a patchwork quilt and I love the

fact that they introduce a riot of colour to the kitchen.”

A vintage painted cupboard houses her collection of

glass and crockery and a Georgian folding leaf dining

table purchased in Somerset is positioned by the window

that overlooks the front garden. Next door, although the

living room and combined office is long and narrow,

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This page: The living space had already been knocked through.

The denim-covered sofa is by Danish designer Peter Jeppesen

and the coffee table is from Heals. The shelving unit, left, is

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Melanie’s choice of furniture has maximised the space.

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that are linear and not space hungry.”

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doesn’t dominate space. A lozenge-shaped Heal’s coffee

table and trio of 90s Habitat nest tables make this part of

the room the perfect place for parties and socialising.

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from which she runs Laslett England, her printed

textile and scarf-making business. Her silk pocket

squares are stocked by Bloomingdales in New York

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Above: A woodburning stove keeps the sitting room cosy.

Left: Melanie’s work space is at the other end of the room

Solutions such as a glass desk and generous shelves to

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But for Melanie, the cottage extends beyond the walls.

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am overlooked by eight other homes, there is a feeling

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need to water it, so it’s incredibly low-maintenance!”

The rest of the garden is stuffed full of hardy

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Above: Melanie keeps her workspace ordered with a shelving unit from Habitat. The glass desk is also from there

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Rosemary rubs shoulders with lavender, sage with thyme,

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enclosed than the back garden. I brought a palm with

me from London and have planted it here – they love

the sea air – and there is also an Echium, another coastal

lover, and sea kale, which I’ve mixed with foxgloves.”

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