SCHOOL OF DESIGN
It sounds ridiculous, but despite having lived on the same road for years, I’d never really taken any notice of this house before,’ says Mairead Holland. ‘It was sort of shut up and neglected looking. It was only when a friend told us that it was for sale four years ago, that I actually stopped to look at it properly… and then made an appointment to view it!’
What she and husband Alexander were to discover was rather daunting. The mid-Victorian property had endured myriad changes over
