Quarter-sawn Afromosia wood lines the walls and kitchen units The floors and ceiling were covered in hand-scraped oak with a smoked and black-oiled finish, laid in a pattern of side-by-side plank ...

This central area leads to a near-three-story great room with a beamed cathedral ceiling, fireplaces at each end, a minstrel gallery, quarter-sawn oak parquet ... and a kitchen with high tray ...