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Byline: Vicki Woods
Under foreign skies, every English heart beats for a country cottage in an English country garden. It's a nostalgic sentiment, but it is hardwired into the national consciousness, along with driving on the other side of the road and a nice cup of tea. Jasper Conran's country house would make any British exile weep. Flemings Hall, in a sleepy corner of Suffolk, is the most exquisite thing I ever saw under an English heaven. It's an Elizabethan moated manor house (Moated. What a fabulously fairy-tale word that is), and is surrounded by an impossibly English garden. Gardens, I should say. Part Gertrude Jekyll-inspired cottage garden, with spires ...