Bottengoms is a Tudor longhouse in the Stour Valley, on the Essex-Suffolk border, where first the painter-plantsman John Nash and his artist wife Christine, and then Ronald Blythe, lived from 1943 to 2023.

The house stands in a two-acre garden and nature reserve, with the water supply coming from a spring-fed stream which originally ran across the kitchen floor.

Ronnie has willed Bottengoms to the Essex Wildlife Trust as a teaching resource and a retreat for writers, artists and naturalists.

The trust is appointing a Project Manager to take this exciting legacy forward.