The English Garden

The Other Side OF THE HILL

In the scenic village of Falkland, Millfield was the first house Sarah and Rob Marshall viewed when, in 2008, they planned their move back to the part of Scotland they both come from. “You couldn’t even see the house from the road because it was so overgrown with laurel and Rhododendron ponticum,” Sarah recalls, “and the house itself was in a pretty bad state due to dry rot.” Even so, they decided to take it on, moving in a few years later once extensive renovation work on the listed property had created enough habitable space for the family to live in.

The handsome house, classically Georgian with Victorian additions on either side, is located on the south-western edge of the village and sits in a slightly elevated position, the land behind the house

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