Escape to the country
Claire and Ed Croft bought this property from Claire’s parents five years ago. ‘They had bought it as a holiday home back in the Seventies, when my brother Tim and I were still living at home in Yorkshire,’ she says. ‘When Ed and I lived in London, we stayed here with my parents regularly, so it has a lot of fond memories for us all.’
When her parents decided to sell up, Claire and Ed bought the house as a bolthole for themselves, but they soon decided to make
