Wealden Times | WT199 | September 2018 | Education supplement inside

Previous pages: The wallpaper in the drawing room is by De
Gournay. The rocking horse is from Stevenson Brothers Above
left: Potato the dog in the hall with vaulted ceilings in the Gothic
Revival style Above right: The parquet floors are by Avalon
Flooring Left: The chest of drawers is from Ensor Interior Design
One of the wonderful things about East Sussex is
that as soon as you think you know the place, you
will quickly realise that you don’t know it at all.
Nestled at the bottom of that lane, the one you drive
past every day, hidden behind the blush of those giant
purple rhododendrons and the splash of lush dark
evergreens lies a house. And then you marvel at how
you managed to miss something quite so stunning!
It is a house just like this that drew businesswoman and
mother of three, Lillie Edgar and her husband, former
banker and now landscape designer Chris, to the pictureperfect
rural coastline between Hastings and Rye.
Fairlight is a village of contradictions. Emerging at the
top of Battery Hill by the Firehills country park, it rolls
downwards towards the sea and just like Winchelsea and
Pett, two of its neighbouring villages, there is an almost
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