New to the market is Kites Nest farm, a large Georgian farmhouse in about 13 acres just 12 miles from Tetbury and 2 miles from Wooton-Under-Edge in Gloucestershire. The house has been recently modernised to a very high standard and includes many character features including stone fireplaces, sash windows and timber floors. * Search for prime property for sale in Gloucestershire The house has a generous reception hall, drawing room, sitting room, library, orangery, kitchen/dining room, four bedrooms, two bathrooms and a shower room. Additionally there is a cottage Pipkin s Cottage which has a sitting room and two or three bedrooms, as well as its own telephone and broadband connections. Outside are landscaped gardens with lawns and a large entertaining area with carp ponds, flagstones and a raised decked terrace as well as rose and vegetable gardens behind Pipkin s Cottage. There is also young woodland which contains a number of mature fruit trees and a grass bank running down to a duck pond. The equestrian facilities include 15 stables, a covered yard, tack room, horse solarium, three storage rooms and a feed store, and have been developed to an international standard. Guide price: £2.25m. For further information, telephone Knight Frank on 01285 659 771 or visit www.knightfrank.co.uk. * Search for prime property for sale in Gloucestershire
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'To exist in this world relies on the hands of others': Roger Powell and modern British bookbindingAn exhibition on the legendary bookbinder Roger Powell reveals not only his great skill, but serves to reconnect us with the joy, power and importance of real craftsmanship.
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Spam: The tinned meaty treat that brought a taste of the ‘hot-dog life of Hollywood’ to war-weary BritainCourtesy of our ‘special relationship’ with the US, Spam was a culinary phenomenon, says Mary Greene. So much so that in 1944, London’s Simpson’s, renowned for its roast beef, was offering creamed Spam casserole instead.
