‘I’m used to going deep into narratives, and I just loved the story of this house,’ says actress and director Sara Sugarman, who is selling her Grade II* listed Georgian home in a historic Kentish dockyard. Her roles include TV series Grange Hill and Juliet Bravo, movies Sid & Nancy and Mr Nice, and she has also directed Lindsay Lohan in Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen and Jonathan Pryce in Very Annie Mary, earning the Sundance Film Maker’s prize along the way. ‘I wanted pure authenticity, so I researched everything I could about the history of the house and 1830s design and got a real hunger for it.’
‘Every time I came down to visit from London, I saw a lorry that had “Eat More Chips” emblazoned on the side’
The 4,500 sq ft house sits behind wrought iron railings and a double fronted façade of yellow stock brick, which are punctuated by shuttered box sash windows and a grand pilastered porch.
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