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This page: The lofty stairwell opens up to a gallery on the first floor, where more coloured cables from Dyke & Dean are strung across the void. Two extra large frames, one containing an old film poster, the other a collage of Cuban posters from a book, hang on the walls Tony Howard, of Harborough Nurseries, who Jake works with on landscaping projects. The lovely magnolia tree next to the wellhead was already perfectly in place. The garden has a very special contemplative air – perhaps enhanced by the nuns’ graveyard, which is still there in another area, through the stone arch – and appreciating its huge potential was one of the many things that attracted Juliet and Jake to the property when they first came along to view it. “We weren’t going to look at the house when we first saw the listing, because it was attached on both sides, but when we did we couldn’t believe it. The garden was in a state of rack and ruin, which apparently put other potential buyers off, but for us it was an opportunity.” After the garden tour, we head back into the house via a French window, which is – although, once again, I didn’t know it at the time – a clue to the next stage of Holmhurst’s history, when in the early 20th century the house became a convent and school. With <strong>August</strong>us Hare long departed from this world, it was by then a ruin, but that didn’t put off the redoubtable Mother Mary Agnes, founder of the Community of the Holy Family, at all. An Italiophile, like Mr Hare, she loved the ruined building because she appreciated the way he had attempted to create a small part of Italy in Hastings. To her it wealdentimes.co.uk 50
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