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...By all accounts he kept a tidy house, but his lurid imagination would have appreciated the gritty urban Bronx development that has since enveloped the once isolated cottage in the then separate village of...
...Who Knight Frank Cottage, White Roding, £830,000 Where In White Roding, a village just over 10 miles north-west of Chelmsford and about 6 miles from the M11 motorway....
...Who Savills House, Sheldon, £699,950 Where Above the River Wye in the heart of the Peak District National Park, Sheldon is a historic village featuring characterful stone cottages and views of the White...
...Van Gogh also describes two paintings of Gachet’s garden, one with cypresses and aloes, which I cannot grow in mine, the other with “white roses, vines and a white figure in it”....
...A house – or cottage, or villa – is the way to go here (though we admit loving The Rooster, the island’s coolest hotel by a mile, which opened in 2021)....
...The 11 accommodations, ranging from one-room junior suites to a clutch of small apartments, reflect the patrician rural setting: simple white walls and timber floors, cast-iron beds....
...Or, if you’re looking to embed a bit in the local community, book a long weekend at Stevenson’s Cottage, an 1870s gold-rush cottage in Arrowtown with a sleek (if diminutive) new addition. rosewoodhotels.com...
...Loop Head, County Clare, €9.75mn Where On the Loop Head peninsula in the south of County Clare, near the fishing village of Kilbaha....
...and the rounded steps; their white dresses, tinted green, and the facades of the houses....
...The 42-year-old CEO of Rosewood Hotel Group – which in 2017 assumed management of this Parisian institution, commissioned by Louis XV in 1758 – is wearing a fawn-coloured Saint Laurent blazer over a white...
...Every character comes with a name and biography, and everyone contributes to village life....
...It persists, flowers for months and fortunately is in the British trade already, Hardys Cottage Garden Plants being a supplier....
...Her mother and aunt were both keen gardeners and collectors – her mother used to go around the North Downs villages where they lived, collecting cottage garden plants on her pony and trap....
...And The Thinking Traveller, which rents smart houses across the Med, is launching the White Dovecote, a restored cluster of dwellings dating from 1831 on the edge of the village of Agapi....
...Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge This small, light-filled glass extension echoes the simple beauty of the original 19th-century cottages-turned-museum created by collector Jim Ede....
...Why Outdoor areas include a private courtyard, a pool and an uncovered terrace that leads directly on to the white sand beach....
...Next summer, they found a flat in Bocca di Magra, a village on the coast of Liguria, in north-west Italy....
...The six bedrooms upstairs feel big, calm and airy; there are three more in a nearby cottage....
...There are four guest bedrooms (and two cottages in the gardens), plus an exhibition space on the lower floor....
...In the same village, I saw three dilapidated cottages knocked into one. The property had an apple orchard and views of an ancient hillfort....
...retreat that is still, essentially, a collection of beach cottages....
...Near the Cotswold village of Kingham, it encompasses Daylesford farm, a farm shop, restaurants, cookery school, cottages for rent, The Wild Rabbit and The Fox pubs and the Bamford Spa....
...On the flipside, owners of the Arts and Crafts cottages, which currently sell for between £200,000 and £300,000, have their lawn-mowing, gardening and other outdoor upkeep taken care of by the village trust...
...The island is sprinkled with empty white cottages with collapsing roofs, now occupied by free-roving sheep....
...Its five cottages are not large, and not luxurious in any conventional sense; the furnishings are simple, the outdoor spaces generous but elemental, the kitchens sweet and serviceable but not remotely magazine-worthy...
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