Framing the views
Dec 31, 2019
3 minutes
WORDS Natasha Brinsmead
PHOTOGRAPHY
Matthew Heritage/Steven Haywood
Peter O’Brien and his father Rodney had been running a holiday home business in Dorset for 10 years when an amazing property in the Totnes area came up for sale. “I had always wanted to live in Devon,” begins Peter.
The Gitcombe Estate, which Peter and Rodney bought, comprised a Grade II-listed farmhouse, a series of old barns and outbuildings, indoor and outdoor pools, and tennis courts, but although the estate had previously been run as a holiday property, it had not been well-maintained or developed to make the most of the
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