In the early days she found herself answering the door to people wondering about the paint colour on the gate – there’s a timber vehicular entrance too – “It’s Farrow & Ball Pigeon,” she says. “Aside from the kitchen, bathrooms, floors and generally decorating, we haven’t had to do anything,” she says. The detached house had at that time recently undergone a major refurbishment and extension and, with young children, she and her husband were looking for a turnkey proposition. When the owner spotted it and the For Sale sign 17 years ago while out for a walk, she peered through the timber gate at the impeccable garden (designed by Formality) and the deep timber-fringed porch and was smitten. A distinctive looking and very pretty timber gate that’s painted a soft grey-green and topped with a pitched terracotta slate roof forms the pedestrian entrance to the Willows, a 1940s bungalow on Mount Anville Road – and it is a good indication of what lies behind.
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