HOME TRUTHS
THE PROPERTY A Victorian shop and attached house
ROOMS Kitchen, utility room, dining room, two sitting rooms, studio, six bedrooms, two bathrooms
LOCATION Malvern Hills
For Julia Davies, a move to the Malvern Hills was as much about pace as place. Living and working in London with her partner Dan Adlem and their two children, Florie, 15, and Joe, 14, she felt the pull of family roots and a slower rhythm. ‘We’d planned to move to Stroud,’ she recalls, ‘but then we viewed this former Victorian shop, and everything changed. We loved the shop front, the original tongue-and-groove panelling, the chunky old shelving and simple wooden floors,’ says Julia. ‘The house’s unfussy honesty really won us over, and the views were just incredible.’
Their arrival was memorable. ‘We…
