Country Homes & Interiors

“Two pregnant alpacas turned me into a country girl and changed my life ❞

When Lou Archer moved to Shropshire with her family 10 years ago, she was not a country girl. Lou and her husband Paul were keen to be closer to his business and give their children Antonia and Warwick a rural lifestyle. Some 14 miles from the market town of Ludlow, high on the Shropshire Hills, they found The Larches, a Victorian house with a slight nod to the Gothic. ‘The property was engulfed in foliage, but as we are The Archers and the property is

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