A Tudor farmhouse in Sulgrave, the Washingtons' English village, restored by Victoria Barker
The Studio Faeger founder is bringing farm cottages from 1540 back to life with antiques and inherited pieces, and viewers from Queensland to Canada are comparing it with the homes they live in.
HomeworthyStory of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 52,823 views a day, 12 times a normal first day on this channel (4,563).
An English Farmhouse Celebrating the Quiet Romance of Country Life | House Tour
How old can a house on Homeworthy get? This one dates to 1540. Victoria Barker, the interior designer who founded Studio Faeger, is restoring a set of former farm cottages in Sulgrave, the Northamptonshire village where George Washington's ancestors kept their estate. The description says the house was once connected to that estate.
Sulgrave is best known for its manor, built in the sixteenth century by Lawrence Washington, a wool merchant and an ancestor of the first American president, and now open to visitors as a museum. Barker's house belongs to the same Tudor world. The tour shows old beams and stonework kept in place, and rooms filled with antiques and pieces she inherited.
It went up beside other tours, from J.J. Martin's maximalist Milan home to a designer's mountain house in Big Sky, Montana. The farmhouse moved fastest. It reached nearly 25,000 views in its first eight hours, while a new tour on the channel usually ends its whole first day with around 4,600.
The comments read like a map of other people's houses. A viewer in Queensland writes from an 1892 timber cottage and marvels at a home more than three centuries older. Others write from Canada and from the American suburbs. Several mention the Washington link, one wishes for a book of everything Barker has done to the house, and another is already picturing a tall Christmas tree in the hall.
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What viewers say
Such a huge undertaking ... but what a spectacular result !! Your home is truly a "big hug" and I love the way you have diligently respected and preserved its heritage. I'm sitting here in springtime Queensland in my 1892-built timber cottage ... European settlement here is only from 1788 and so to see this beauty from 1540 is truly mind-blowing for this Aussie!
@sc3942See it on YouTubeI adore this quaint cottage and its interior. The hostess has a beautiful cadenced voice.🌹❤️💕
@edd9032See it on YouTubeI so appreciate people who tackle these very old properties and bring them back to life. I also love the connection with George Washington our founding father. So very special. Of all the beautiful English cottages I’ve seen on Homeworthy this, to me, is the most beautiful in its purposeful simplicity. Lovely hostess, bravo!
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- Channel
- Homeworthy
- Subscribers
- 920,000 ▲ 5,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 3,786,539
- Channel views, pace per day
- 780,328 (on a normal day: 515,015)
- Video published
- October 3, 2026
- Video views so far
- 24,880 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 52,823
The numbers
For a channel that posts several tours a day, this was a fast start, and the farmhouse ran well ahead of the others posted with it.
💡 Test your knowledge
George Washington, whose ancestors' estate was in Sulgrave, was born in which American colony?
Washington was born in 1732 in Westmoreland County, Virginia, where his great-grandfather John Washington had settled after leaving England in the 1650s.
