FIONA JOPP AND TOBIAS MERZ HAVE BEEN living in their little cottage for a few years now, but every time they walk into the back room and look out to the garden, it still has an effect on them. “We can’t quite believe it’s ours,” says Fiona. For some time, they’d been living in tiny flats in London, and the prospect of doing up a terrace house, let alone having a garden, seemed pretty impossible.
Before they first saw the house, Tobias had never been to Rozelle in his life, and Fiona had only been to a few pubs in the area. But the couple, who met while they were studying in The Hague, were both set on finding an old place with a garden. “I had it
