Arcadia Quote by Nicolas Roeg

I wanted to restore an ancient house in Kent, and that's what I did. It was a heap - this Tudor building with the…

— Christine McVie

The house I grew up in was a tall Victorian town house in Bristol. There were very big rooms, which were under-furnished and always…

— Philippa Gregory

Mine wasn't a lakes-and-boats kind of childhood. I grew up on a Glasgow council estate with a single mother. For our holidays, we went…

— Kelly Macdonald

I've lived in a flat in Westminster in London for over 20 years; and I also have a house in the country, down in…

— Marti Webb

There was a time in my life when I was going in and out of houses that were extraordinarily different - from a working-class…

— Mark Haddon

From Brighton to Bradford, from Suffolk to Somerset, I have explored some remarkable buildings and structures that, in different ways, have helped to shed…

— Michael Portillo

I grew up in a little town between Bath and Bristol with my parents and grandparents in the same house. It was rural and…

— Bill Bailey

I lived in Peckham for the first 12 years of my life and then my mum and dad decided they really didn't want to…

— Tinie Tempah

My childhood was a happy one, spent in a tall house in South Kensington and later in East Sussex, but my early and mid…

— Julian Fellowes

I used to have a house in London, but couldn't face 20 more years of St John's Wood in the rain.

— Eric Idle

I was brought up on a council estate in the countryside near Stoke Prior in Worcestershire, but I adored visiting the farm where my…

— Trudie Styler

I lived with my parents and my older brother in a small, three-bedroom terraced house in Northfield Road, Hull. It was in the part…

— Maureen Lipman