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Lisa Fazzani

‘We turned our seaside retreat into our forever home and now we run a tea room too!'

Coastal cottage exterior.

Once a family home, this 1900’s built former fisherman’s cottage in Queensborough Harbour, Kent had lain empty for 10 years before the home owners decided to take the property on and renovate it.

‘My husband’s grandparents lived here originally,’ says the home owner, ‘and my husband was born in the back bedroom. Although it hadn’t been used for 10 years we decided to buy it back from family to use as a holiday home before planning a major renovation. When my husband retired, we then decided to make the move from Surrey full time.’

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