Period Living

PASTORAL SYMPHONY

Shaded by ancient oak woodland on the edge of the South Downs there is a special room with spectacular views. A garden building with a difference, with open fields to the front and a leafy canopy at the back, Helen Moore’s shepherd’s hut is the ultimate writer’s retreat.

‘We’d been in our new home for a few weeks when I looked out of the kitchen window and spotted something odd

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