{"id":147462,"date":"2024-10-22T17:00:14","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T10:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/sarah-beenys-country-house-wowed-me-but-not-as-much-as-her-sheer-chutzpah-zoe-williams\/"},"modified":"2024-10-22T22:48:27","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T15:48:27","slug":"sarah-beenys-country-house-wowed-me-but-not-as-much-as-her-sheer-chutzpah-zoe-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/sarah-beenys-country-house-wowed-me-but-not-as-much-as-her-sheer-chutzpah-zoe-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Beeny\u2019s country house wowed me \u2013 but not as much as her sheer chutzpah | Zoe Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe Channel 4 presenter is in hot water with planners for building without permission \u2013 and she did it all under the eyes of prime-time viewersLocals call Sarah Beeny\u2019s house in Somerset \u201cmini-Downton Abbey\u201d, owing to its grandeur\u00a0\u2013 and its treehouse, boathouse and greenhouse. I went there, to interview the presenter, just after she had made her documentary about having breast cancer in 2023. I liked her a lot, wished her well. I also thought her house was ridiculous: the space was absurdly lavish and ostentatious, before you even trained your eye on the cornicing, fabrics and whatnot. The boot room was the size of a primary school hall. But then she is the property expert; she is also a convincing construction expert, or at least a highly experienced dabbler. I\u00a0figured she must know better than I do about what\u2019s silly and what isn\u2019t. Also, this was hardly news. The entire country had eyes on the place, as she built it in Channel 4\u2019s New Life in the Country.Other residents weren\u2019t wild about it, which I knew thanks to not one but two taxi drivers, each of whom complained about something different. The first said more or less what I was thinking: what is that funny, gigantic thing doing there? There is something a bit old-school deferential about that objection, which ideally I would train myself out of: you wouldn\u2019t give a second glance to a great big pile that had been built by an authentic aristo, back in the days when nobility meant something, so to object to ostentation just because it\u2019s new is another way of objecting to new money. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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