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They kiss on both sides of your cheek

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The house I’m sitting in a house that is over 500 years old. I’ve never seen anything quite like it. The outside walls are made of rough sandstone and it has a thatched roof that must be replaced every thirty years. The windows are hexagonal lead lights with interesting latches and hand forged ‘arms’ to hold the window open. The internal doors have wooden latches and each room has one or more wooden beams holding the ceiling up. The upstairs hallway undulates like it’s been hit with perma-frost. Outside is a rambling garden that would have been beautiful in it’s hay-day, but it’s a little hard to keep a large garden going when you are in your eighties. original windows... the Studio The outside barn initially caught the current owner’s eye as it could become a studio, the house was secondary but which they fell equally in love with. The house’s name is Agecroft, and it’s bad luck to change a property’s name so while they didn’t really like it at first it grew on t...