Period Living

STEPPING BACK IN TIME

Maureen and Rod Lackey were ready to be out with the new and in with the old when they started looking for their next home in the Lake District town where they have spent most of their lives.

‘We’d been living in a new build a few miles away, but we found the rooms too small and we craved the tall ceilings and feeling of space that you only get in an older property,’ explains Maureen.

The couple viewed a few period properties, but they

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