ENGLISH HOME
Home to ROOST
In a former rectory-turned-youth hostel in a pretty Gloucestershire valley, Catherine Scudamore has created a home filled with an imaginative blend of antique, contemporary and vintage pieces
FEATURE EMMA J PAGE PHOTOGRAPHY RACHAEL SMITH
LEFT In the drawing room, Henry sofas by Arlo & Jacob sit either side of an oversized pink marble coffee table sourced in Belgium. The painting over the fireplace came from The Malthouse Collective in Stroud. ABOVE Catherine, founder of Gathered, an antique and vintage furniture showroom, relaxing in the drawing room. To find out more, visit gathered.store
In the drawing room, the sofas are covered in Nantes by Lewis & Wood, which had been curtains in the couple’s previous house. This co-ordinates with the curtains here, in Ticking Red/Blue by Susan Deliss. The octagonal table was a find on eBay and the porcelain candlesticks are a souvenir from a trip to Positano.
The comfort of CHARACTER
Simon Rayner and Jeremy Langmead have filled their secluded Lake District farmhouse with layered textiles, antiques and colour to create a quietly modern, rural retreat
WORDS AND PHOTOGRAPHS CLAIRE BINGHAM
NATURE In tune with
Embrace seasonal living and enjoy the harvests and sights of April
FEATURE KATY MCLEAN
NATURAL SPECTACLE
Carpeting woodland in clouds of white star-shape flowers and filling the air with a heady, intense aroma, wild garlic is abundant in April. This bulb hibernates for most of the year before bursting forth in spring to create a dazzling sight in England’s woodlands. This beautiful, delicate bloom is also a delicious treat that can be foraged in most public woodlands - but do check it is not a protected or restricted area. Only pick what is needed, and only pick the leaves and flowers, without uprooting the plant or taking too much from one area. Take care to identify it correctly as wild garlic, and not Lily of the Valley, which is toxic – the intense garlicky smell should be a good indicator! Wild garlic can be used to make pesto or butter to flavour pasta, salads, breads or soups.
A view of Castle Howard from the South Lake, one of the many ornamental water features in the grounds of the estate.
More than MOORS
Visit ‘God’s own country’, the affectionate nickname for Yorkshire, and enjoy its natural beauty, cultural pride and those famous Dales and Moors
FEATURE JENNY LOWTHROP
Vast, varied and fiercely proud, Yorkshire rewards those who travel slowly and look closely. From moorland villages and grand houses with spellbinding interiors to tea rooms, abbeys and bracing sea air, this is England at its most abundant and quietly spectacular.
Sitting in the north of the country and stretching from the North Sea coast to the Pennine Hills, it is England’s largest historic county by a considerable margin. With a population of around 5.6 million, larger than Scotland or Wales, Yorkshire has the scale, confidence and identity of a nation in its own right.
Locals half-jokingly call it ‘God’s own country’ – and there is more than a grain of truth in the phrase.
Artists and writers have long been drawn to Yorkshire’s landscapes, from the Brontë sisters, writing against the windswept Pennines, to Barbara Hepworth