Homebuilding & Renovating

HILLTOP view

“The layout and window positions mean that the house is full of light and the view is ever-present from all the rooms”

Retired accountant David Clapp and his wife Penny, a retired GP, always wanted to build their dream home in Ashford, the rural hilltop community where David was born. Overlooking the sweeping estuary of the River Taw on the North Devon coast, the village was really the only option for the couple when it came to building their forever home.

However, both in terms of available land and the

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