When Matthew and Holly moved into their last house, a “1990s, totally serviceable box that we never fell in love with,” says Matthew, they immediately started looking for the next one. Their search went on for five years before they found this home partially hidden behind a tall laurel hedge. “At that point we had seen enough of the fixers that came on the market to know how unusual this house was,” Holly remembers. The house was originally built in 1904, and for decades served as a single-fa…
