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Jayne Fowler, 59, was house sitting for a friend when she walked past an estate agent’s window and spotted an old chapel up for sale.Within a week the former school administrator set to work and project managed the entire project for the next 12 months.
She was able to draw on skills her late husband Harry taught her when they built their house – named Pear Tree Cottage – from scratch together in 1999.The gran-of-three now lives in the 1852 Chapel, in Salisbury, Wiltshire, which now boasts a modern interior with a kitchen, plush bedroom and its own stain-glass window.Mum-of-two Jayne said: ‘I’m pretty pleased with how it turned out.
‘Harry taught me how to use power tools and then let me use them under his guidance until I was confident to use them safely.‘After he had passed away I realised I had a real curiosity for self build, renovations and the housing market in general.’Jayne did have professional help and mostly project managed but helped with the work where she could.‘I was helping out with the flooring. It was so much fun.
She viewed it two days later, and bought it the next day for £155,000. Two days after that, she started work.She spent £135,000 to renovate it, including a reroofing but it was finished last July and she has been living in it ever since.‘We built that one from scratch. The site we bought was an acre site with a derelict 15th Century cottage on it, a London South West first class train carriage and lots of tin outbuildings.
‘The next morning I woke up and my husband popped into my head. I thought “Oh my God Harry, what have I done?”When she first arrived the house was covered in ivy and mould and the windows and roof timbers were rotten.Jayne adds: ‘I started gutting it out over the next three months as I applied for a change in planning consent and had to have a bat survey done.‘I did have some serious doubts over the course of it.
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