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HOMEOWNERS Steve and Susanne Clarke
LOCATION Little Easton, Essex
SIZE 260m²
CONSTRUCTION Green oak frame
BUILD TIME 13 months
BUILD COST Circa £750,000
VALUE £1.6m
The idea of building their own house was the last thing on Steve and Susanne Clarke’s mind when they began searching around for a potential new home. “We’d never had the desire to build our own home and we loved the idea of moving into a barn conversion,” says Steve. But unimpressed with any of the barns they had viewed, the couple began to formulate the idea of building a new house in the garden of their existing home in Essex where they had lived for 20 years, before concluding that planning permission for a new build in and around the village would almost
