This dream home was influenced by renowned architect and landscape designer duo Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll.

Pat Bramley reports.

"We just loved the character of the house and the seclusion as soon as we saw it. When I walked in, the first thing I noticed was how light and airy it was. The views were so beautiful from every room,” says Michelle Truscott about the house she and her future husband Carl bought in September 2007.

The couple had previously been living in a two bedroom flat in London and here they were falling in love with a seven bedroom Arts & Crafts house built in 1908 in the style of an architect regarded by some as Britain’s greatest.

The design of both house and the garden at Threefields was influenced by the renowned architect and landscape designer duo Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll, hailed by country house owners at the time as the dream team.

The Truscotts are only the third owners of Threefields. There are still three fields – “we love the way the land is wrapped around the house and it’s not overlooked at all” – but whereas, in the first owner’s time, the land extended to 27 acres and he kept racehorses in the paddocks, the grounds now amount to six and a half acres and part of it has become three fairways and three greens for a keen golfer.

Soon after they arrived, Carl mowed a path through the grass and in one field created three golf holes – two par threes and a 325 yard par 4.

With seven bedrooms and five reception rooms, the living area is already pretty palatial at 4,277 sq ft but the Truscotts have been granted planning permission to extend the main house and convert one of the outbuildings which will take it up to 7000 sq ft.

“We didn’t move in for the first three months. We redecorated and upgraded the This dream home was influenced by renowned architect and landscape designer duo Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll.

Pat Bramley reports “We didn’t move in for the first three months. We redecorated and upgraded the house from top to bottom. Our first Christmas here was magical,” Carl remembers.

“The cooker didn’t arrive until mid December but in the end all the family came – 13 or 14 of them – and they all stayed. It was wonderful.”

There were even more guests at their wedding reception. Michelle, a singer with big bands playing gigs in glamorous places like the Seychelles before she gave up her career when their son Jules was born three years ago, says the house holds so many happy memories for them.

“We actually got married in Antigua without any family or friends there, just the two of us but we had the reception here with 70 guests including Carl’s parents from Cornwall and my family from Manchester.”

Carl, an independent consultant for a logistics company, says he and Michelle make a good team when they tackle a refurbishment project. “Michelle is arty, she’s very good at dressing the house, choosing colours and fabrics, I make sure everything is in the right place.”

The Lutyens influence is evident everywhere you look, in the elaborate chimneys, in the shape of the rooms and the beautiful windows. Along with the beams, there are 12 original fireplaces, Threefields is the epitome of an English country house in a garden that conjures up memories of an era when the pace of life was slower and people had time to smell the roses.

But life moves on and now Carl and Michelle have new plans which is why Threefields in the hamlet of Felden is on the market through Chewton Rose at Gerrards Cross for £1.899,999.