Surrey Homes | SH101 | June 2023 | Education Supplement inside

This page: The walls in the master bedroom, punctuated by striking timbers, are Stone III from Paint & Paper Library, the ceiling is Stone I
The sitting room is at the front of
the house, with a large window looking
out onto the cobbled street. Cherry
recounts how, when her daughters were
younger, she once found that they had
set up shop at the window and were
busy selling seashells to passing tourists.
“I suggested that they deliver the
takings to the verger at the church,” she
laughs. Happily, her daughters agreed.
This nice big sitting room window
has come in very useful over the years
– and not just for selling seashells
from – “we’ve had to take the window
out a number of times to get large
items of furniture into the house,” says
Heather, while I admire the table that
sits perfectly under the window – it is
such a good fit. “That table is from a
gallery and homewares shop in Deal
– Will and Yates. Belinda sourced it
and then we had the legs chopped
off,” Heather says nonchalantly. “It
is just the right width and length
for the space under the window.”
And now just the right height too.
The colour scheme in the sitting
room is subtle and restful, and a good
height for a fifteenth century house.
“Yes, it’s not too beamy either,” says
Heather. The walls are painted in Stone
III from Paint & Paper Library, which
makes a soft neutral backdrop to the
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