http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/buyingsellingandmoving/11365629/The-prettiest-streets-in-Britain.html
Picture perfect: Mermaid Street in Rye, Sussex, is quintessentially English.
The prettiest streets in Britain
What could be more appealing than a row of beautiful houses in a picture-perfect setting? Caroline McGhie explores the country’s roads to happiness
By Caroline McGhie
7:00AM GMT 26 Jan 2015
In the pursuit of wealth, status and privacy, we sometimes forget that some of the prettiest streets in the country are as heart-stopping as our greatest country houses and cityscapes.
Largely built many centuries ago, they make the most of local materials and topographical quirks, and the houses along them rise and fall as rhythmically as the notes in a song.
They attract house buyers as surely as bees to pollen, but prices don’t always have to break the bank.
MERMAID STREET, RYE, EAST SUSSEX
You can’t shake off the world of E F Benson’s Mapp and Lucia in Rye: tea shops, choirs, am-dram societies and artists, and everyone knows everyone else’s business. People are drawn by the delightful Georgian and half-timbered houses, cobbled streets, pretty harbour and quirky shops. Mermaid Street is storybook lovely, with cobbles running steeply downhill and historic houses either side.
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