Just 20 months ago if you were strolling down one of the poshest streets in one of Wales' most sought-after coastal towns there was a house that would have stopped you in your tracks for all the wrong reasons. A walk down the tree-lined Westbourne Road at the beginning of 2021, one of the most expensive suburban addresses in the Vale of Glamorgan that regularly appears on lists of Wales' most expensive streets, would have treated you to views of handsome Victorian houses — until you got to number 21.
Sadly, the seven-bedroom house had not just fallen into disrepair, it was uninhabitable and in a state from which it appeared there could be no return, battered by the elements, with massive holes in the roof and a large section of the facade missing. The windows were rotten, some didn't even have glass in them, and working guttering and downpipes were absent from most of the building or in a desperate state. The garden was totally overgrown.
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