Period Living

Labour of love

ocated just off the village green and set back from a gravel track, this Victorian minister’s cottage has instant kerb appeal. It was the quaint red-brick property’s idyllic setting in a Buckinghamshire Conservation Area that first lured Naomi and Richard to it. ‘I was won over before I even stepped inside; it was just so pretty,’ says Naomi. Once inside, she fell in love with the large kitchen-diner with its vaulted ceiling. ‘You’d expect it to be tiny and dark, but it’s so

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