With our five and six-year-old children we fitted the bill, and I think he could tell I was in love with it!" She added: "I think there had been interest to convert to an old people's home, but the owner was keen it went to a family. Someone wanted to get rid of the cooker due to a dislike of orange - Rebecca stepped in to give it a new home (Image: Sykes Cottages) She said: "I think everyone must have felt something special about it, so much so that the owner at the time who owned the clinic interviewed me and my husband about what we intended to do with it." But I loved everything about it."īut Rebecca isn't the first owner to have fallen under this home's special charm and it appeared she might have to wrestle the property from the owner back in 2005. It wasn't the ideal viewing because it was dark, so we couldn't see outside, and wouldn't see many of the rooms as they were being used for treatments. She said: "I phoned the estate agent every day for a week to get a viewing, but it was hard because it was being used as a clinic. There was a lot of dark brown carpet going on."īut Rebecca could see past the dated decor to what the property could become and could not stop thinking about the house - her determination to secure it as her new family home was unshakable. All the fireplaces had been ripped out downstairs, but they were in place upstairs. There was just a Belfast sink on bricks and a dresser in the kitchen. Rebecca said: "It looked like a surgery, with basins in every room and woodchip everywhere. As soon as the alert for this property came up on her phone and she saw it, she was smitten. It was 2005 and she was living in Sussex but working in Maesteg and was on the hunt for a special abode in the capital.
The current owner, 51-year-old Rebecca Attoe-Butt, thinks the property has a special magic and it certainly cast a spell on her over 15 years ago. If you remember the house as a clinic, you're going to be amazed (Image: Sykes Cottages)