Surrey Homes | SH59 | September 2019 | Education supplement inside

This page: The kitchen had once been the library. Jaime stripped back
the tooled leather wallpaper and pulled down 1970s partitions and stud
walls to bring back the sense of scale from the original floor plan. The
room’s original features include a wonderful ornate plaster ceiling, huge
windows and original shutters and an impressive veined marble fireplace
was running her fashion brand MUKS. They had no
children and were living a carefree and urban life,
happy in their minimal white flat in the centre of
London. The idea of becoming chatelaine to a large
country estate in Kent was not on Jaime’s agenda.
So it came as a bit of surprise when nine years and
two children later, the couple decided to pick up
the project they had begun at Bayham and move in.
Having originally bought the West Wing, a new life
and two years of extensive renovations beckoned.
“I never thought I would leave London. I had
moved to the UK from Canada to be in London,
and so it was a bit of a shock to be honest.
But now it all seems so perfect and I couldn’t
wish for a better place to raise my family.”
The link to London was something the original
owner of Bayham Hall, Lord Camden, was also
rather obsessed with. So much so that he famously
built a road from the house all the way to London.
If you have ever been to Bayham Street in Camden
then that is where you might have found him.
We begin our tour of Bayham in Jaime’s
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