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Ironmongers’ Hall, London EC2 The home of the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers

The style set is returning to the very neighbourhoods it once made a habit of spurning, finds Will Hosie

Tucked in the Herefordshire countryside at Much Marcle, not far from its border with Gloucestershire, is Hellens Manor. Now presenting as a Tudor/Jacobean home, it predates those eras by some margin;

Back in 1979, David and Linda Williams felt ready to move to a spacious, light house with a good-sized garden. Ideally, it would be low maintenance so as not to encroach on David’s job as head of art

Three stellar estates in Wales and Staffordshire show how careful restoration is always worth the effort