rom the moment Gayle Scott walked through the ‘Hobbit door’ of the Northamptonshire cottage she and husband Paul came to view in 2018, she was sold. ‘The door has been here since the house was built in the 17th century, and seemed to sum up everything I wanted in an old property – character, history and permanence,’ Gayle explains. ‘We’d spent years living in a 1980s house in a busy new town, and I’d always dreamed of living in a place like this, but somehow thought we’d have to
