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LOCATION Cambridgeshire
SIZE 400m ² in total
CONSTRUCTION Cottage: timber frame; new wing: steel structure with timber frame and slate roof
BUILD/RENOVATION TIME 5 years
PLOT/HOUSE COST £375,000 (in 2013)
BUILD COST £1.3m
VALUE £1.9m
Patience proved a virtue for Sean and Marion King. After waiting about 10 years for the right property to arrive on the market, they found a historic but dilapidated cottage in a village just five miles from their Cambridgeshire home. Interestingly, they both had a different take on it. “I was excited because of the huge potential I could see in restoring it,” says Sean. But Marion deemed it one of the least desirable projects they had come across. “Even though we’ve done other renovations, this is Grade II-listed and was a building at risk, as both gable ends were structurally unstable,” she says.
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