The handmade tale
It’s remarkable that Lisa and Ryan Tucker succeeded in buying their cottage at all, given the many twists and turns of fate. “We first saw it in 2014 after we had been looking for a long time,” begins Lisa. “It wasn’t beautiful and we didn’t exactly fall in love with it because it was damp, very cold and had been empty for some time. But we could see the potential.”
The 1820s cottage was originally a ‘two up, two down’, but had been extended in the 1970s; the extension consisting of a lounge and kitchen with a bedroom and bathroom above. A single-storey extension in the 1980s had added another
