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    Colourful SANCTUARY

    Sep 02, 2020 4 minutes
    FEATURE CLAIR WAYMAN
    PHOTOGRAPHY SIMON BROWN

    When interior designer, Rita Konig first visited North Farm in 2016 she was struck by the peaceful atmosphere and sublimely beautiful surrounding landscape of Teesdale. She had travelled up from London with her husband, biographer Philip Eade, who had inherited the Victorian property and surrounding 380 acres.

    At the time, the house was quite run-down, but Rita’s mind started whirring with ideas, and she could see it would make a fabulous holiday home for herself, Philip and their now six-year-old daughter Margot. “Philip was brought up in Shropshire, so County Durham wasn’t somewhere he’d lived or ever considered living,” Rita explains. “Even though the house had belonged to his family

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