Surrey Homes | SH58 | August 2019 | Restoration & New Build supplement inside

This page: A generously proportioned room is now used as
a guest bedroom. Translucent linen blinds keep the space
light and airy and accents of black, pink and gold contrast
with the pale walls and carpet
was the perfect place to found a school dedicated
to ‘teaching women of all ages’. One of whom,
a few decades on, was called Joanna Lumley.
The huge sitting room Juliet and I have stepped
into – through one of the three French windows in the
bay, each topped with another multi-paned window,
drenching the space in light and views of the lovely
garden – was once called the Edgeworth classroom.
Although it is hard to imagine, with that enticing
outlook, how any of the girls ever paid attention.
While it is easy to imagine that huge room, furnished
to scale with a huge sofa that was very handily given
to them by one of Jake’s grateful clients, full of happy
party guests, wandering in and out through those
windows, there is another sitting room with a very
different appeal at the other end of the house, all
the way along that corridor and through the arch.
This lovely cosy room, with original Delft tiles around
the fireplace and stone-mullioned windows, dramatically
painted in Farrow & Ball’s Downpipe Grey, has a very