Homebuilding & Renovating

A newplan

TIMELINE

HOMEOWNERS Sarah and Mike Hyland

LOCATION Oxfordshire

PROJECT Two-storey cedar-clad extension to previously converted stone chapel

SIZE 205m²

BUILD ROUTE Main contractor

BUILD TIME 10 months (Jan 2018 - Nov 2018)

HOUSE COST £517,000

BUILD COST £446,000

VALUE £1.2million+

Built in 1882, and converted by a previous owner, this former Methodist chapel in Oxfordshire was in a poor state of repair when Sarah and Mike Hyland bought it in 2017. Overlooking fields on the edge of a rural hamlet, the property had been extended over the years with various structures,

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