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25 Beautiful Homes
|February 2021
Restaurateurs Caroline and George Dodds cooked up a stunning renovation of their Victorian terrace by the sea
HOME TRUTHS
THE PROPERTY Victorian terraced house
LOCATION Kent
ROOMS Sitting room, family room, kitchen-diner, cloakroom, three bedrooms (one en suite), two bathrooms
PURCHASED 2012
PREVIOUS PROPERTY
‘We lived in a tiny fisherman’s cottage nearby,’ says Caroline.
Caroline and George Dodds were living in a fisherman’s cottage on the East Kent coast when they decided they needed to find a larger family home. ‘We saw this house online while we were on holiday and as soon as we got home, we arranged to view it,’ says Caroline. ‘It was in a terrible condition, overrun with cats and hadn’t been touched since the Fifties.’ Nonetheless, they loved it so much they put a bid in, which was accepted.
This story is from the February 2021 edition of 25 Beautiful Homes.
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