WORDS REBECCA FOSTER
PHOTOS PHIL WILKINSON
David and Pia England’s self build journey began in 2007, when they purchased two rural cottages and a rundown steading on a 23-acre sheep farm. The pair had been on the lookout for a conversion opportunity for almost three years when they discovered this site near Aberfeldy in Perthshire. “My wife had just given birth to our second child when I heard about the farm. It was a bit further north than we’d looked before,” says David. “We bundled the baby up and piled into the car; it was one of those beautiful blue-sky days. When we arrived, my mother-in-law immediately told me I had to try and buy the place.”
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