When Pollyanna Green and her husband, Nick, went house-hunting in the Cotswolds, she had her heart set on finding a quaint, thatched-roof cottage. Everything changed when the pair noticed a run-down Victorian schoolhouse at the heart of a village.
“It was simply love at first sight,” says Pollyanna. The schoolhouse, which dates from 1855, had been converted into a home in the 1960s, but previous occupants had left much of the interior untouched for decades. Armed with ideas from the new owners, an architect drew up plans to enlarge and rearrange the property, turning it into a unique home for the couple and their two grown children.
Being in a conservation area, the building’s front façade could not be altered, but a spacious new kitchen was able to be added…
