Traditional or Modern? The Owners of This English Country House Didn’t Have to Choose.

Anne Spratling and John Ayris spent almost four years adding contemporary elements to their Georgian-era farmhouse

By Ruth Bloomfield | Photographs by Vanessa Berberian for The Wall Street JournalApril 13, 2023 11:00 am ET

From the street, Anne Spratling and John Ayris’s home looks like a classic English country house. But its backyard holds a secret. The couple have doubled the size of their roughly 200-year-old house by wrapping a pair of ultramodern additions around it.

Ms. Spratling, 56, and Mr. Ayris, 55, bought Vicarage Farm, a late Georgian-era farmhouse set on 8 acres of land, in 2015. The house is in a village around 4 miles from the English seaside town of Hythe and about 65 miles southeast of central London…READ MORE>>>https://www.wsj.com/articles/traditional-or-modern-the-owners-of-this-english-country-house-didnt-have-to-choose-6775ffff?st=ioujzbjhhwwjwiw&mod=e2fbrlst&fbclid=IwAR2IcnYYzFUUMkmgUtLEk9E0yURcG1F8eMCeruy6S6BzcJhJeO21ggc9td0

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