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    Oliver Gerrish is an architectural historian and building design consultant, and a trustee of the Derbyshire Historic Buildings Trust as well as founder of their Architecture Awards.
    Sennowe Park in Norfolk

    Thomas Cook: The travel agent who changed the world, and the house his descendants live in to this day

    Sennowe Park in Norfolk is the home of Charles and Virginia Temple-Richards, the descendants of trailblazing travel agent Thomas Cook. Oliver Gerrish looks at the travel business that funded and informed the renovation of this extraordinary Edwardian country house.

    • Fig 2: The main stair rises to the bedroom floor. The colour scheme and the picture hang have both been changed in the recent restoration work. Note the glass candle flutes. Radbourne House. ©Paul Highnam / Country Life

      Radbourne Hall: Inside the halls of a 'playful, magnificent, secret and rather magical place'

      An award-winning restoration project has addressed serious structural problems at Radbourne Hall, Derbyshire, the home of Sir James and Lady Chichester. This important Palladian house has been brought back to life as a modern family home, as Oliver Gerrish reports. Photographs by Paul Highnam.

      By Oliver Gerrish Published 3 April 22

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