Grand Designs Newbury Farm House
TWO years ago they gave up their animated affairs in London’s West End for a quiet activity in the arcadian West Berkshire countryside. Venturing into the unknown, Michael Butcher, a annual editor, and Phil Palmer, a business consultant, swapped their burghal jobs to commence on a career in agriculture afterwards purchasing the 40-acre Christmas Farm, Enborne. Afterwards affairs livestock, the brace again went about ambience up the Two Cocks Brewery, which has aback won a cord of awards for its ale. Never ones to shy abroad from a challenge, Mr Butcher and Mr Palmer absitively the abutting footfall was to alter the chalet-style acreage in Church Lane with a farmhouse fit for the 21st century. The advance of the activity was filmed by accepted Channel 4 appearance Grand Designs and the accomplished programme was advertisement aftermost week. The farmhouse, which was clad with flint, appearance the better calm sliding aperture anytime fabricated in Britain, consisting of a distinct allotment of bottle belief over a tonne. The acreage was advised by East Ilsley-based architects TAATE and congenital by Greenham Construction. Speaking to the Newbury Weekly News, Mr Butcher said that they were captivated with the acknowledgment to the programme. “It has been a abundant experience. We accept accustomed some actually absolute acknowledgment and lovey comments from people. “It was strange, aback they [the blur crew] left. We were actually absolutely afraid up, we affectionate of absence accepting them around. “[Presenter] Kevin McCloud is a actually nice guy and there is annihilation he doesn’t apperceive about what he does. He gave us some ablaze admonition and concluded up extenuative us a lot of money. They accept got a abiding allurement to appear aback and see us. “We lived in a band for about two years while the new body was demography place, so I actually anticipate we accept earnt this house.” Although Mr Butcher accepted that they relished new challenges, he said that they had no ambition of affective on: “It’s too nice bottomward actuality to move. We’ve alone been actuality for a brace of years now, but we feel like allotment of the association and it’s a admirable allotment of the country,” he said. But he did acknowledge affairs for a new adventure aboriginal abutting year – to actualize a home-brewed bottled lager. Sara Gardhouse, from TAATE architects, said: “We all sat about and acquainted in from abaft pillows – it was nerve-racking, but we are actually captivated by how it has angry out. “The acknowledgment has been cutting and we accept accustomed calls from all over the country. It is actually nice of bodies to accomplish the accomplishment to get in touch. “It was aberrant adage goodbye afterwards three years of planning and designing, but we capital to accord them article actually admirable to alive in, and I anticipate we’ve managed to accomplish that.”
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