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A house for ALL SEASONS

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Owners Animal physiotherapist Frankie Bickerdike, her husband, Jack, who works in the family engineering business, and three dogs, Bonny, a bulldog, Bear, a boxer, and Bodhi, a cocker spaniel.

House A 19th-century detached property with five bedrooms and three bathrooms located in a village outside York.

iving busy lives in a house they’d self-built from scratch on the outskirts of Leeds, Frankie Bickerdike and husband Jack began yearning for more space for themselves and their dogs. ‘We were working hard all day and then coming home to an urban environment,

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