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As a child, when I pictured my perfect house, this was it exactly. It felt so familiar, with the wisteria growing over the pretty porch and covering the red brick façade, that I felt at home the minute I walked in, says Jojo Humes, recalling the first viewing of her future home.
In 2019 we were living in Woodbridge, where I grew up,' she says. But as my eldest children had flown the nest and there had been a change in my marital status, it was the perfect time to embrace new surroundings. As one door closed, another, leading to something special, seemed to open.' Situated in the pretty village of Debenham, in the heart of Suffolk, Jojo's house started life as the village reading rooms in the 1800s, becoming a social club called The Institute in the 1960s and, finally, a residential property in the 1970s.
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TRAVEL
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