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THE OWNERS
Music agent, Alex Hardee, his wife, Eloise Markwell-Butler, a festival programmer, and sons, Atticus, four, and Huxley, two.
THE PROPERTY
A renovated 19th-century beach house in Kent. On the ground floor, a storm porch opens into a double-fronted, open-plan kitchen and living space with dining room in the side return. The main bathroom, boys’ bedroom and three guest bedrooms are also on the ground floor. The first floor comprises a master bedroom and en suite.
Taxidermy is the one thing we don’t fully agree on,’ says Eloise Markwell-Butler of her husband Alex Hardee’s decorative taste. In thecouple’sensuite, analbinolionessstands sentinel. ‘We decided he could have one piece in here, but then I flooded the bathroom,’ she recalls. ‘We ran up here, picked her up and put her…