ack in the 1970s, when Tim Whittaker was a boy, his great-aunt gave him a precious bundle of ancient documents relating to a 17th-century Cumbrian house owned by his family until the mid-19th century. This sparked a lifelong interest in the property for Tim and he fondly recalls the day he cycled over to the house when he was 16 years old to satisfy his curiosity. “I took pictures of the exterior and was invited in by the tenant farmer, who showed me a spice cupboard inscribed with one of my ancestor’s initials in 1696. Since that day, I’ve always felt connected to the house and longed to own it. It’s wonderful to think that finally, in 2018, at the age of 59, I stepped
