B mar/apr 2022


o orsyth was looing or a house with clean lines and ig, open spaces His wie arrie, having grown up in a ictorian property, was looing or a place with history and character hat in itsel was a ig as in the areas etween radord and eeds where properties o the sie and scale they were looing or are in short supply ut there was an added condition t had to e within a twomile radius o arries parents home  ideally to the point where she might see their chimney pots rom the upstairs windows m really close to my mum and dad, so this was


really important to me, says arrie e looed at more than ten properties eore we ound one we oth lied t was ust outside the radius, ut it wored or us oth ell, almost irst impressions were united he sweeping drive


way opened up to a spacious s house set in the middle o a threeuarter acre private garden,  aned y mature trees and not overlooed y neighouring properties ver the years there had een two eten sions  neither o them particularly complementing the original uilding  and the interior eatured a umle o disconnected rooms with relatively small windows that ailed to tae advantage o the eautiul garden e oth came away and said we wanted the house, but Bob had serious reservations about the amount of wor that needed doing to it and what it might cost, while  was looing at its huge potential, says arrie e were living in an old police cottage with two teenage daughters and wanted more space, ut there was no option to develop it he only way we could achieve more space was to move house and  new this


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