“Living on top of a hill has definitely been a new experience for us,” laughs Nadia Taylor, who, with her husband Lee and their three daughters – Zara, 15, Anya, 12, and Sophia, 10 – moved from her native Singapore to The Hewletts, their Georgian home just outside Cheltenham, last year. “Driving down towards the town in winter, we were stunned as the temperature on the dashboard went up by two degrees each time.”
There is no question, though, that the midwinter mercury drop is worth it for the views from the family’s 18th-century Palladian-style home, perched atop Aggs Hill, and overlooking nearly 50 acres of garden, parkland, pasture and woodland. The
