‘She’s a beautiful old dear – she just needed a new dress’
Patience is a virtue and certainly proved a useful one for Simon and Caroline Laver, who today are relaxing in the garden room of the beautiful Georgian home they waited five years to find. Focusing their search on the countryside surrounding the market town of Petworth in West Sussex, there were only four houses that fitted their brief – Georgian in style, a good size and in close proximity to the town.
“I grew up in the area, and our first marital home was in nearby Midhurst, so we had a definite idea of where we wanted to be,” Simon,
