Finding a house that would comfortably accommodate visits from their four adult children and yet still feel cosy when it was just the two of them was key for Rebecca and Ross Minerva. In 2015, when Rebecca spotted a rambling Victorian country house for sale near the market town of Haslemere in the Surrey Hills, she knew it was the one but Ross took some persuading.
“Even though it’s a big house, it felt instantly comfortable to me,” she says. “However, Ross is a property developer and didn’t think it was a good investment as he could see it
