COMING HOME
rom the moment Gayle Scott walked through ‘the Hobbit door’ in the 17th-century Northamptonshire cottage she and husband Paul came to view two years’ ago, she was sold. ‘The door has been here since the house was built and seemed to sum up everything I wanted in an old property – character, history and permanence,’ she explains. ‘We’d spent years living in a 1980s house in a busy
