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A Private View: interiors writer Ros Byam Shaw’s very own ‘Perfect English’ house

The journalist and author of the ‘Perfect English’ book series has spent two decades coaxing her home in Devon into the picture of rural comfort, filling it with second-hand treasures to a degree of sumptuousness belying its size. With it now on the market, she tells us of the stories, souvenirs and superstitions she’s come across here

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Ros Byam Shaw
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Paul Whitbread
A Private View: interiors writer Ros Byam Shaw’s very own ‘Perfect English’ house

Great House, Colyton, Devon

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