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The two-storey stone residential house was built in 1905 as a home for the Harper family, the local lock manufacturers. It replaced a much older
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The gallery backs onto a large garden populated with various flowers. It contains several craft works, including two carved wooden dragons by Graham Jones and a circle of stone sculptures.
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