This Cotswolds townhouse was revived with passion and imagination

Reflecting back on the day that she and husband Peter purchased their three-storey early 1800s Cotswold stone home, Emma Dellicompagni doesn’t over-romanticise it.

‘This house had been used as a holiday let for years, and the inside was full of 1980s decorating disasters.’

The property occupies a prime spot on the bustling, tree-lined high street of the picturesque Cotswolds village of Broadway, with pretty honey-coloured stone cottages on either side. Millions of tourists who have visited the village will have admired the exterior of the home when the wisteria is blooming around the front portico.