It is very pretty and also practical. The actual mill building houses a large courtyard and a range of interesting old buildings is one side of the lane leading to the main house. Both admit to being hard of hearing. They have two grown sons. A walkin cupboard near the kitchen has an impressive collection of Marx Brothers and Woody Allen movies.
Books have a presence throughout the house.
Trevor's study is a small book-lined room. Several postcards of one of his favourite artists, the American Edward Hopper, are propped up on his shelves, leaning against books. He gives me a fine Folio edition of the short stories of Katherine Mansfield to which he has contributed an introduction. Chekhov had been in at the birth, Joyce presided over the years of adolescence, the Americans inherited. By the time Scott Fitzgerald and Hemingway reached out for it, the modern form had come to stay.