Relocating to a house and farm buildings in rural Hampshire six years ago, the antique dealer and decorator Max Rollitt and his wife, movement therapist Jane Watson, have created a relaxed base for their family and their work
Max Rollitt's earliest memory of a lane that wends its way through Avington beside the wide ribbon of the River Itchen is trudging along it as a Boy Scout about 40 years ago. 'We stopped near the farm and ate some nasty beef sausages,' he says. More recently, he would regularly cycle along the route on the nine-mile ride from his townhouse in Winchester to his antique shop in The Old Telephone Exchange in Alresford. Six years ago, he and his wife Jane Watson and their three sons - Edward, now 17, Alfie, 15, and William, 12 - moved from Winchester to live on this lane, in a neat brick and flint farmhouse.
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Bench in the kitchen
The Morning Room
Ginny in the kitchen
Kitchen
The Exterior
The Morning Room
Lamp in the morning room
The Sitting Room
Fireplace
The Staircase
The Bedroom
The Garden
The Showroom
The Showroom
Side Table
Jane's Studio