ELEGANT EVOLUTION
Quirky’ is the word Gabrielle Armstrong uses to describe the house in North Wales that she shares with husband Trevor Ruddle. Located in a small hamlet in Flintshire, Bryn Bellan was built during the late-Georgian period. It underwent alterations during the Victorian era, when bay windows were added and, in 1902, it was enlarged to create a 12-bedroom property. This same passage of time can also be seen in the tranquil, two-level garden, with the remains of a carriage turning circle now forming a semicircular sunken lawn in front of the house, over which a stately Sequoiadendron giganteum, commonly known as wellingtonia, casts beautiful shadows.
Gabrielle and Trevor arrived at Bryn Bellan 20 years ago, relocating from North Yorkshire for Trevor’s work. Initially they were looking for an old farmhouse to restore but changed their plans when they came across the property that would go on
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