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The General Stores successfully merges the old with the new through the use of beautiful and sensitive decoration by fashion and textile designer Liz Lewitt. There are many fascinating original features still in evidence throughout, which help to tell the story of the buildings long and varied history, including the remains of a rifle range in the barn which was used for gunfire practice during the Second World War, and the series of Bee Skeps inset into the outside walls of the building into which small hives would be placed to protect them from the elements. Other points of interest are an internal Edwardian sliding casement window in the sitting room, doors and butterfly hinges which date back to the 1650’s and an old bread oven from one of the General Stores previous incarnations as the village bakers.
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