Floral stylist Karen Attwood is no stranger to the countryside – she’s lived in rural properties all over Cambridgeshire, Suffolk and Norfolk. But her attachment to the land goes even deeper. ‘My family has been farming for generations, so weekends as a child were spent working with the cows,’ she says.
So when Karen and husband Jules were looking to swap their 16th-century cottage in bustling Coggeshall for something a bit more remote, she wasn’t put off by this extended Victorian farmstead just outside Saffron Walden, which shares a dirt track with only a few neighbours.
