Well CONNECTED

Helen and Richard Spencer had never planned to live in the Oxfordshire village property they bought back in 1997 that has since become their permanent family home. ‘When both cottages next door to where we were living came up for sale, it was too good an opportunity to miss,’ Helen, who runs fashion boutique Nellie & Dove, says. Eyeing the two dark period cottages and barn as an investment opportunity, the couple imagined