MARK PALMER: ‘Once upon a time, you would see muddy old Land Rovers parked in Chipping Camden, now it’s all shiny Porsches and Ferraris.’ As demand for Cotswold houses plummet, with prices down by 12 per cent, has the bubble finally burst?

Alice de Courcy and her husband, George Connor, live with their two small children, a pair of Shetland ponies, a whippet and a spaniel in a picture-postcard Georgian house with seven bedrooms.

It’s set in several acres of gardens and paddocks in the village of Compton Abdale, near the historic market town of Northleach, in the heart of the Cotswolds, the most fashionable stretch of countryside in Britain.

As the summer sun glints off the sash windows and the ivy that clads the walls rustles in a light breeze, it’s hard not to view this gem of a property as a little

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