The man who built a Hobbit house by accident

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Stuart Grant, 90, has spent years turning a ruined farm building in the Highlands into a little house.

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But the 90-year-old says that it was not his intention when he started work on the project in the 1980s."When I started doing it up I was just getting such a buzz doing it.His little house is located in the woods in Glen Affric, in the Highlands. Stuart, a skilled joiner, had intended to renovate the house and make it his home in the Highlands after two stints living and working in Australia, which amounted to a total of 14 years.That stop-gap then become a labour of love.

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