Heart Homes
Photographs by Paul Craig
Words by Victoria Dockrell
When former television producer
Charlotte and her screenwriter
husband Boris bought an old
Georgian rectory in West Dorset
in 2009 it had been empty for
several years. “It was very tired
and neglected but it had great
bones,”
Charlotte
explains.
Having viewed around 30 houses
across Devon, Somerset and
Dorset, they fell in love with
the property instantly: “We had
always loved the proportions
of Georgian architecture and
we loved the amount of light
inside – the 12ft high ceilings
give it an amazi ng sense of space.”
They were also attracted by the
“quintessentially English” setting
with a grade I listed church at the
end of the garden.
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