Homebuilding & Renovating

Escape to the country

HOMEOWNERS Tom and Emily Hunt, with their children, Miles and Nina

LOCATION Shropshire

BUILD TIME April 2015 - September 2017

PROJECT Renovation and conversion of stone barns into a home and holiday lets

SIZE 240m2

PLOT COST £135,000 (in 2015)

BUILD COST £360,000

VALUE £595,000

WORDS Amy Reeves

Steve Elliot After living for years in their first self-build, a contemporary three-storey home on an infill plot in the centre of Sheffield (which was the Daily Telegraph Homebuilding & Renovating Awards 2011 Overall Winner), Emily and Tom Hunt chose to trade the buzz

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