A fed-up couple have sold their four-bedroom, semi-detached house near Maidstone, Kent, and swapped it for a grand French château and its surrounding grounds - saving £230,000 in the process. Heidi and Anthony Muir were growing increasingly annoyed with the gridlocked traffic in their area, so finally decided to pack up and move.
The nine-bedroom estate in central France, that served as a French Resistance headquarters during World War Two, featured three times on Channel 4 show Grand Designs before they bought it. Heidi, 55, and her 53-year-old husband Anthony, sold their family home in the village of Allington for £600,000 and bought the manor house for £370,000.
