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house first,” he says. “It’s been re-roofed, gutted inside, and I’ve nearly finishing pointing it up.” With the house now pretty much finished he plans to pick up work on the barn again, which he says won’t take as long as it will be done to a lower spec.
Now the house is complete, Rob says OPPOSITE
Rob says he’s particularly pleased with the internal stone walls
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he’s particularly pleased with the internal stone walls. “The two-storey one in the hallway is a real feature, but it took on average two hours per course to lay, with a total of 32 courses,” he explains. “That doesn’t include finding the stone, splitting it, sorting it, moving it down to the house or pointing it. I won’t be giving up my day job any time soon!” Rob says he couldn’t be happier with the finished result, although admits he “always has projects on the go” and hasn’t “sat down long enough to appreciate what I’ve got”. Nonetheless, he asserts that the finished house is a “beautiful building that sits will with the existing farm buildings, and is incredibly bright and spacious.” Now he’s installed the hot tub, he can “wind down and appreciate the beautiful rural location I live in, just surrounded by fields and sky. And my alpacas!” So is another project on the horizon any time soon? “Maybe,” he confesses. He already has ideas to build another house into the hillside at the top of the field, with a sedum roof and a full glass front to take in the “stunning” views. “But that’s after I’ve finished the barn, and had a bit of a rest. And a couple of holidays!”
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