Lifestyle Archive
(June 2022)

21 June 2022

A taste of Italian wines

Kate McFruin of Liberty Wines was host for an evening of Italian wine tasting at Doddington Hall. Wines varied from the Allegrini Estate Lugana 2019 to a lively rosé Cassiopea Bolgheri Rosato 2021. Kate added her own tasting notes as the wines were sampled. Refreshments included a welcome glass of English Rathfinny Estate Classic Cuvée Read more…

Artist signed prints at auction

By William Gregory MRICS, Golding Young and Mawer. Affordable art is a term that often features in the title of exhibitions and auctions and can illustrate the conflict between price and value. Prints have always been a way of allowing a route to economical art ownership. Whilst gallery prices for certain artists can at first Read more…

Gardens for all seasons

Chris and Jonathan have taken advantage of a striking prospect to the parish church, St Helen’s, on the brow of the hill. Although no concrete evidence has come to light as to the architect, this affecting 18th-century classical building was much admired by Nikolaus Pevsner in his Buildings of Lincolnshire compendium: ‘Though small, it is Read more…

20 June 2022

Period cottage with a contemporary twist

Old Church Cottage is a beautifully converted 16th-century Grade II Listed thatched cottage in a much sought after scenic village location near Lincoln. Located in a prime position in the charming village of Aubourn, which sits between Lincoln and Newark, Old Church Cottage is a distinctive four-bedroom single storey period cottage which has been creatively Read more…