The English Home

Country CHRISTMAS

Standing proudly at the end of a winding, tree-lined driveway, is a house that immediately transports the imagination back to the eighteenth century. Resembling a parsonage from a Jane Austen novel, the three-storey Grade II listed stone building dates from 1788 and did indeed originally house the local rector.

Surrounded by rolling parkland on the edge of a charming village in Rutland, the property is positioned directly opposite the parish church. The setting is idyllic all year round, but owners Neil Honor and Jonathon Pegg say that it never looks better,

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