HIDDEN TREASURE
After a change in her personal circumstances, Shelly was looking for a new house for herself, her daughter Schyler, and Spike the dog. ‘I was after a period home and definitely not a new build,’ begins Shelly. ‘The trouble was, period houses can be money pits and I was on a tight budget. I knew that any renovations would have to be done on a shoestring.’
Shelly briefly looked online at a four-bedroom, 500-year-old property in a South Yorkshire conservation village. It was a house with a
