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    A towering restoration

    Sep 26, 2019 5 minutes
    WORDS Alexandra Pratt
    PHOTOGRAPHY
    Simon Burt
    “No-one wanted to touch it… but it was the best thing I ever did”

    HOMEOWNER Pete Craske, a surfing instructor LOCATION Dartmoor PROJECT Victorian watertower conversion SIZE 83m2 BUILD TIME One year BUILD ROUTE DIY plus subcontractors PROPERTY COST £135,000 (2016) BUILD COST £66,617 VALUE £350,000

    For a recently divorced man hoping to get out of rented accommodation, a semi-derelict, eight-storey Victorian watertower is hardly the obvious choice. Yet for Pete Craske, it was love at first sight — despite the property’s condition. “It had been closed up for a year,” Pete recalls. “The roof had blown off… water was pouring down the stairs, plants were growing out the walls and we had to wear head torches when viewing it, as the windows were

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