ARCHITECTURE
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What A listed four-bedroom semi-detached period villa
Where North London
Architect Archer and Braun
Main contractor Trendhomes
After 25 years in their much-loved “but tired” home in Highgate, north London, a freak storm and flooding presented Nicole and David Price with a dilemma: should they stay (and take on the daunting large-scale refurbishment) or should they go? “I got an estate agent round to help us decide,” Nicole recalls. “Instead of giving me a valuation, though, the agent said we'd be mad to sell up! And we did love our home. It has a long garden with a studio at the end and woods at the back, and there's a tube station nearby. So there were a lot of reasons to stay.
“But we'd
