Homebuilding & Renovating

House of TWO HALVES

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HOMEOWNERS Rachel and Matt Partridge

LOCATION Nailsworth, Gloucestershire

PROJECT Renovation and extension of an 18th-century Cotswold stone cottage

SIZE 350m²

BUILD TIME Two years (2016 - 2018)

HOUSE COST £420,000

BUILD COST £700,000

VALUE circa £1.7million

When Matt Partridge began searching for an office near Bristol in 2004, he and his wife, Rachel, both went house hunting. They soon expanded their search to nearby Stroud and quickly spotted a Cotswold stone house that dated back to 1740. “It was out of budget, but had been on the market a while,” Rachel explains. “That afternoon we viewed it and put in an offer.”

The property, located in an AONB in the Nailsworth Valley,

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