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SPRING to life

Tim Perkin was rightly thrilled to move into an 18th-century Grade II-listed Northamptonshire farmhouse in 1993 as a life tenant. Belonging to one of the oldest privately owned estates in the country, the property was nevertheless barely habitable and so

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