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When Borja De Maqua and Dean Poulton decided to move, they never anticipated buying a historic estate, comprising of a derelict Georgian manor house and four cottages. Or that they would each be working gruelling 18-hour days in an effort to restore it.
‘Although extremely rewarding, tackling a project of this size is very demanding – and we still have several years of renovating ahead of us,’ Borja says.
In 2018, Dean and Borja had hoped to relocate to ‘a little farmhouse in the countryside.’ But, with their previous house selling within 24 hours, and plans to buy a ramshackle property scuppered,
