THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS
Burnt or under-baked cakes served with ash-speckled tea made on a very temperamental Cornish range were a daily delight for Jane and Ant Hosking when they bought a beautiful old house with outbuildings on the Cornish coast.
The main house was still inhabited by two sisters who had lived there for 60 years despite its spartan conditions.‘There was no water, electricity or telephone line to Colenso House, and the sisters used a bucket outside for a toilet,’ recalls Jane.
