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style, a movement that influenced her considerably. This training gave her the ability to design and improve cottages on her husbandâs properties at Ockham Park, Surrey, and Ashley Combe, Somerset. According to the âHistoric Ockhamâ Facebook group, she designed the Parish Rooms and the
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in Gower Street, an undertaking made more difficult by requiring accompaniment on the journey to and from so as to maintain respectability. She married
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