“ Blah blah blah….And here we have the kitchen, with useful
deep-set shelving here by the window..”
‘there used to be a
door there, when this was two cottages’
“…And the Aga of
course is always the heart of a home”
‘ you can still see
where there used to be stairs where the Aga is now.
“this makes a nice dining room or snug”
‘tell them that the
over-mantle is from Exeter
cathedral’
“the hay barn above the stables”
‘ is great for a band
for summer parties. If you look on the
end wall up in there, you can see where
various children over the years have drawn peeing men, spitfires, and mystic
circles..
“Note the beamed ceiling here in
the annex, an attractive feature”
‘from when this was
part of the hay-barn. The same beams are
in there. They must have blocked up the
holes to drop hay into the stables below, which explains the uneven floor.’
“Not a bad little garden out the
back here”
‘over forty different
species of birds have been observed here over the years’
“I understand that down there
used to be a root store..”
‘tell them about the
doorway you can just see if you lean forward to look down. It leads into a corridor running behind the
yard stables, and there’s a secret room there with electric light..’
“I must say that the views here
are outstanding”
‘ if you’d only bother
to take them to the top of the hill behind us you can have a 360 degree
view. You can see the Wellington Monument
on a clear day..’
“Blah blah blah…”
© Penny Smale March 2012
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