An
article in
the Daily Mail money section considers the problems of financing and
living in unusual buildings. It covers a dovecote, glasshouse, narrowboat
and two mills.
The watermill is at Aberfeldy in Perthshire. Here Kathleen and Tom Rodger
bought a derelict mill in 1983, and spent £200,000 of the profits of
their modern mill and shop in Cupar, to restore it to a working state
milling oats. With the death of Tom last year, the mill is on the market
along with a visitors centre and tearoom in the adjacent barn, for
£250,000 through Pavilions of Splendour.
The windmill covered is at West Chiltington, Sussex. Converted to a
home in 1923, it now has 4 beds and an annex, but only retains 2 sails
to reduce the weight on the wooden structure. This has just been sold
by Kathryn and Colin Johnson who lived there for 22 years, for
£550,000.
Living in unusual homes