The English Home

A stylish MARRIAGE

Rising from a quintessentially English landscape, an imposing red brick and stone country house with tall chimneys, gables and cupolas stretches towards the wide East Anglian sky. This is now the much-loved country home of interior designer Kate Earle, her husband Tom Hill and children Orlando, 17 and Lily, 15, but Kate’s first impressions were a little different. “When I first came, I couldn’t picture myself living here,’’ she says. “It just wasn’t the sort of house, I imagined I’d live in.”

Tom, a barrister and Queen’s Counsel

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