The brochure for Chippenham Lodge, a Victorian country house near Newmarket, Suffolk, is strangely mute about the charms of the panelled kitchen and the part-colonnaded drawing room. It has little to say of the 18 bedrooms, only one of which is granted a small photograph. Yet it effuses about the grounds and seems to carry a lot of pictures of a sleek contemporary house which doesn’t appear to be there at all.
On closer inspection, they are not photographs but artist’s impressions fused into a lush parkland background. Chippenham Lodge, an 1840s hunting lodge, is as solid as they come, and has formed the backdrop to many couple’s wedding photographs in recent years as it has served as a wedding venue. But that has not prevented the owner deciding to advertise the house as a knock-down and rebuild.
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