Having just completed renovations on a 1980s stone-built cottage, Laura and Chris Gough were looking for another project, ideally a characterful period property. ‘I’m very creative and enjoy being hands-on with the design and renovation work,’ says Laura. ‘I soon get bored in a finished home,’ she adds.
When she found this pretty double-fronted, 17th-century cottage set in an expansive garden in a quiet Wiltshire village, Laura knew it could be their perfect doer-upper, with plenty of scope for a creative and sympathetic renovation. Her plan gained further momentum when she discovered the house came with an outbuilding that
