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T he owners of this quintessentially English manor house have carefully decorated and adapted it as a family home and an apt setting for their art and antique. Asked to describe their perfect house, the chances are that many people would suggest an old Cotswold manor house, its grey stone gables crowning as picturesque and not quite symmetrical façade, the heavily studded oak front door approached by a lichen-encrusted, s F