CASE STUDY
SUSSEX UPS AND DOWNS
For Ian Perry and his wife, building their own home in the Sussex countryside meant finally fulfilling a dream they’d held onto for many years, but it was a voyage of several discoveries, including Covid challenges
TEXT ROSEANNE FIELD IMAGES IAN PERRY
D
oing a self-build was something Ian Perry and his partner had been thinking about for some time. But it was an episode of
Grand Designs that really cemented their thoughts. “The one thing that really inspired us was watching the Huf Haus going up on Grand Designs,” Ian says. “That crystalised our ideas. We’d always thought it would be nice to build something ourselves.”
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The biggest hurdle for them was finding a plot of land, a task Ian admits they found “strenuous and quite disappointing in many ways.” Eventually they found a plot near Storrington in West Sussex, an area unfamiliar to them. Nonetheless, they went to talk to the estate agents, only to find the land had been sold to a developer. They offered an alternative plot, which although more expensive, suited them
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