Cute townhouse interior

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Recognising that the family home needed refreshing, Roland & Fred Woodward called upon their skills to give the building a new lease of life.

Once owned by Henry Austen — and where his sister Jane wrote parts of Sense and Sensibility — Henry’s Townhouse in Marylebone proffers Georgian splendour and a real home-from-home in the heart of the capital, says Paula Lester.

The owner had a particular interest in the different effects that can be achieved by combining the traditional and the new - the incorporation of old-style furniture and finishes into a modern shell or, in this case, putting 20th century furniture, artwork and fabrics into a space expressed in a traditional architectural language.

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