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A Traditional Style Cottage

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Name: 

Patrick and Carol Creagh-Coen

Build Cost: 

£286,000

Build time: 

9 month(s)

Build Route: 

Main-Contractor

Region: 

Cambridgeshire
Patrick and Carol Creagh-Coen have replaced an unloved, badly improved house with a charming new traditional-style cottage despite objections from locals and battles with the planning committee.

 

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Cottage, Stephen Mattick, Cambridgeshire, Render, Planning Permission Difficulties, Author: Clive Fewins, Photographer: Darren Chung, Issue: November 2009
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