House History Files: Little Gillies, Luxulyan, Cornwall
Liz Toth has always felt a strong connection to the stream that flows at the bottom of her garden, which winds its way through the rugged moorlands of rural Cornwall surrounding the 230-year-old stone cottage (previously, two adjoining cottages), Little Gillies, where she lives with her husband, Phil, and their furry companions…
House History Files: 3 Upton’s Cottage, Falmouth
Right of the Bosun’s Locker in Falmouth is one of the most interesting of the town’s ‘opes’ (or alleyways) known as Upton Slip; a particularly narrow ope that runs down steeply from a fan-lit doorway in Church Street. Tucked just behind the Locker, which largely shelters them from the winter east wind, is a charming, three-storey cottage known as Upton’s Cottage…
House History Files: Peaselands, Cumbria
Lying in the beautiful Lyvennet Valley, near the village of King's Meaburn in Cumbria, is Peaselands, a charming, stone-built, grade II-listed farmhouse, which owners, Caroline Fancott-Beynon and her husband, Andrew (whose family bought the property in 2001) are currently renovating…