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Surrey Homes | SH74 | March 2021 | Interiors supplement inside

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I swear that view could be prescribed for high blood pressure, you<br />

can’t help sighing out the tension as you look at it...<br />

temporarily closed due to Covid restrictions. The website has<br />

updates on all this and I’m now making plans to go next year.<br />

The question will be which of the amazing properties to<br />

stay in. If I were going with my extended family for a special<br />

occasion we could book out the whole of Kingshill Farmhouse,<br />

which sleeps 14 – individual rooms can now be booked, too.<br />

It’s decorated in the very smart, yet always warm and cosy style<br />

of interior designer Francesca Rowan-Plowden, who has created<br />

the new looks for this lovely Georgian/Victorian building –<br />

which had been derelict since the 1960s – and Elmley Cottage.<br />

Kingshill Farmhouse, with its plethora of velvet, old<br />

paintings, dark walls and kilims – and a very cool kitchen<br />

extension with Crittall windows – is heavenly. As Georgina<br />

says, “We wanted it to feel like a home,” and it really does.<br />

The home of some very cool and fortunate friends…<br />

But while I found it quite hard to leave the Farmhouse, <br />

priceless-magazines.com<br />

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