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Tucked away behind a hedge off the main street of a historic Sussex village, Fran Fudge’s early 18th-century house is easy to miss. ‘We bought the house three years ago.
It dates from 1704 and although it looks quite small from the outside, inside it’s deceptively spacious. With three teenage children, we needed at least four bedrooms and plenty of space inside and out,’ she explains. Fran and her Canadian husband, Brian, set about planning how to adapt the house to 21st-century family life, without destroying the character of the historic, listed building. ‘Back in the 1960s, previous owners
