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A decades-long project to save a house from 500 years of 'ungainly, hotch-potch extensions' and reveal its original beauty

13+ hour, 31+ min ago   (424+ words) Given the ambition of these developments, Balgone House itself — home of Alan and Fidelity Dean — comes as a surprise. Rather than being rebuilt to a grand Victorian scheme, it was merely enlarged piecemeal with a hotch-potch of ungainly extensions, behind…...