The English Home

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When Speronella Marsh embarked on the restoration of her husband Ben’s family home, a red-brick Shropshire manor embraced by low, forested hills, there was, she sighs, “a great deal to do.” Pipes clanked in the night. Floorboards sagged. The garden was so overgrown that a branch had punched, like a gnarled hand, into a bathroom. There was also the pressing question of curtains. “One of the first things I did was to count the windows,” says Speronella. The total? Ninety four, and all in need of

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