A gem, a real gem is what I have seen to day. It was not the sort of gem you - your ‘partner’ would want to wear on her finger, because it was a grade II listed Somerset Farmhouse, standing adjacent to the village church, known as the above! Well I liked it and so do my Clients and I can’t blame them. It is not without its problems, but these all have to be seen in the greater context. Fortunately there was nothing that should be desperately off putting, but when a building is over 400 years old nothing is going to be straight and doors will only fit their frames where they touch!. Death watch beetle is running around the house, though I do not think it is being held up by them holding hands! So, they can move in and start work, piecemeal, area by area, room by room and in twenty years time they will have magnificent house, but all the time will have been living in a delightful house, with an Aga (of course!) a garage, green house, outbuildings and an in door heated swimming pool. And they do not have to go far for divine inspiration…   more »