The Times Magazine - UK (2020-10-17)

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he parish of Brewham sits deep in

Somerset’s lush green countryside.

It’s just three miles from newly

fashionable Bruton, but the dramatic

elevated view from Brewham House is

timeless; King Alfred’s Tower, on the

Stourhead estate, is the only visible manmade

form, rising up from the ridge in the distance.

It was this view that came to mind three

years ago when Charlotte Green discovered

that her husband, the former England rugby

player Will Green, had sold their house

while she was giving birth to their fourth

child, Hector. Unfazed, the 46-year-old stylist

learnt that Brewham House had just been

put back on the market (“We’d seen it earlier

in the year and knew it was special”), so with

three-day-old Hector in arms and their other

children – Arthur, now 16, Matilda, 13, and

Primrose, 11 – they revisited the 17th-century

manor and seized the opportunity.

Charlotte, formerly of Vogue and Tatler,

took the unexpected life change in her

Yorkshire stride. “I love a house move, but it

was chaos,” she says smiling. “Will was on site

in Leeds and Suffolk and I was in the middle

of a huge styling job, in transit with a baby.”

Constructed in local stone, the oldest

part of the manor and the anterior barn

have been linked up over the years, creating

an L-shaped spread to the rear of the neat

Georgian frontage with its Doric pilasters

and semicircular fanlight. “It’s all quite

Clockwise from this

picture: the dining room

with Hay/Ikea chairs, Lee

Broom pendants, Tom Dixon

wall lights and Kartell

Cindy lamps; Lefroy Brooks

sinks, taps and mirrors in

the children’s bathroom;

the exterior

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