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Fact File:
Owners: Andrew and Lucy Yeats
Professions: Architects who run their own
business, Ecoarc
Style of House: Former school house
built 1880
Land Cost: £43,000
Build costs: £40,000 for phase one which
created a three bedroom house.
£90,000 for Phase two which
created office, bathroom,
study/bedroom, bedroom
upstairs
Total cost: £130,000
Main construction took: One year (first
phase), nine months
(second phase)
Current value of property: £725,000
have his wedding banns read. He was so
besotted with his bride-to-be that he under
quoted by half the amount of everyone else.”
What he hadn’t accounted for in his £4,000
quote was the fact that the building sloped by
almost a foot into one corner and the brick
courses had to slope with it.
“He had to undo several layers and create
sloping string lines for it to work,” said Andrew.
With the wall rebuilt and the ceilings down,
they ferried all the rubble to a skip which was
then taken by the local farmers to use for
field tracks.
Every inch of original skirting board, building dry-lined. Roof lights, insulation and in the 1980s as part of a Youth Training
architrave and beam was removed by hand, upper floors were installed and the original Scheme, didn’t have to be touched.
labelled and numbered, ready for re-fitting at a windows were repaired and refitted. Behind the main school room was a
later date, the collar ties were raised and the Fortunately the roof, which had been replaced Continued on page 12
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