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Plate IV · i · d · The County

East Sussex

Not a city at all — a farmhouse under the Downs, at the end of a lane, with paint on every door it owns.

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A painted farmhouse room at dusk, decorated panels and hand-worked surfaces, chalk downland beyond the window
Plate IV · i · d · Under the Downs

A house where the decoration is not on the walls so much as it is the walls, the doors, and the backs of the chairs.

A day, properly arranged
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Entry is by timed slot. Book it before you plan the rest of the day around it.

The entries

One entry, visited, and June was the right month.
Notes for the county

This is not a place you drop in on. It is out in the country at the end of a lane, the house is seen in timed groups, and the slots go early in the season. Book first; arrange the train, the car and the lunch afterwards.

Give the garden the same time you give the rooms. It is doing the same job as the painted doors — a small enclosed world made by people who were not going to leave anything plain — and most visitors run through it on the way back to the car.

June suited it. Long light, the windows open, and the paint reading warm rather than shabby. I would not come in the wet unless I had to.

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