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The acquisition of houses by the National Trust from the 1930s had less to do with the impoverishment of aristocratic families than the industrial wealth of bachelor donors, as Michael Hall reveals

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The reinvention of this Edwardian terrace is a triumph in timelessness, where styles from different eras blend together beautifully