After months of touring overseas, Whitecliff, a secluded stone farmhouse on the north side of Swanage Bay, was offered as a retreat for Nash and his wife. Paul recalled the sanctuary it afforded him as he struggled with intermittent poor health, noting in his autobiography: “We are lent a house by the sea. Blessed escape. Enchantment of the Ballard.”

After months of touring overseas, Whitecliff, a secluded stone farmhouse on the north side of Swanage Bay, was offered as a retreat for Nash and his wife. Paul recalled the sanctuary it afforded him as he struggled with intermittent poor health, noting in his autobiography: “We are lent a house by the sea. Blessed escape. Enchantment of the Ballard.”