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PROFILE

THE OWNERS

Ben Stokes, interior designer and shop owner, and his partner, Sophie Charlesworth, an operations manager, live here with their daughter, Margot

THE PROPERTY

A 19th-century, three-storey terraced house in Tenterden, Kent

PROJECT COST

£25,000

Property development runs in Ben Stoke’s family. Having watched his parents do up house after house, moving the family onto the next project as they completed the last, it seemed natural for him to

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