The English Home

Measure to MADE

Having decided the time had come to downsize and sell the family home near Cirencester where she and her late husband had brought up their three children, Julia Delamain set her heart on finding a property in one of the town’s surrounding villages.

Desiring a house with enough room for family to come and stay, Julia was pleasantly surprised when details of a four-bedroom house that she was already familiar with landed on her doormat. “Until recently, I was a part-time district nurse,” she explains, “and in the course

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