Hallelujah! 変えるd Cambridgeshire chapel up for TV prize, on sale for £425,000
- Font House in Godmanchester, Cambridgeshire is an ex-Methodist church
- Owner Stephen Spencer 変えるd it into a living space for £80,000
- Three-bedroom 所有物／資産／財産 now on the market for £425,000
After the phenomenal success of Channel 4’s Come Dine With Me, it was perhaps 必然的な that a 所有物／資産／財産 同等（の） of the culinary show would follow.
And, sure enough, ITV’s May The Best House 勝利，勝つ was born, a programme in which four homeowners 率 each other’s houses for their 内部の design, 慰安 and 歓待 to 勝利，勝つ a £1,000 prize.
The new 一連の the show is 予定 to be broadcast in the spring, and of the houses to feature, few can match Stephen Spencer’s 所有物／資産／財産 in Godmanchester, Cambridgeshire, for originality.
Seeing the light: Stephen Spencer outside Font House, a former Methodist church which he has 変えるd into a three-bedroom home< /p>
Font House is a former Baptist church. While that might not seem unusual in itself ? as congregation numbers 落ちる across the country, 得点する／非難する／２０s of places of Christian worship have been 変えるd ? this one is strikingly modern. Moreover, the change of use （機の）カム about as a result not of 拒絶する／低下する but of a rising congregation.
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A chapel was first built on the 場所／位置 in 1815 and the 存在するing building dates from the Seventies. By the 早期に Eighties, as more and more people joined the congregation, the church decided to vacate the building and move somewhere bigger. The 場所／位置 was sold to the 救済 Army.
Stephen, 59, a publisher of magazines for schools, bought the 所有物／資産／財産 in 2010. ‘My 初めの idea was to use it for a call centre for my 商売／仕事,’ he says. ‘But then I decided it would make a nice house.’
He spent £80,000 on the 革新, and the 事業／計画（する） took a year to 完全にする. Stephen turned what was a simple hall at the 前線 of the building into a 同時代の living space with three bedrooms, two 熟考する／考慮するs (both of which could be 変えるd into その上の 選び出す／独身 bedrooms), and an 注目する，もくろむ-catching 黒人／ボイコット-and-green kitchen and dining area.
賞賛する: Pictured is the 有望な living room area with the 前線 doors in the centre and the アイロンをかける stairs up to the mezzanine level
The 固める／コンクリート 床に打ち倒す was ripped up to 任命する／導入する an underfloor heating system, which is now covered by gleaming porcelain-style 床に打ち倒すing tiles. Sections of open brickwork on the 塀で囲むs were also plastered over.
But the most 広範囲にわたる work was the 新規加入 of a mezzanine 床に打ち倒す covering the 支援する of the hallway for the master bedroom with en 控訴 wet room 接近d by a stylish cast アイロンをかける spiral staircase.
Stephen was uncertain how to を取り引きする the 広大な total-immersion font, typical of Baptist chapels, that stood in the centre of the hall. ‘We considered turning it into a Jacuzzi,’ he says. ‘But in the end, we just filled it in.’
一般に, however, he 設立する the 初めの design of the chapel fitted in with his 見通し for a modern living space. ‘What is unusual for a church is that this building was designed to be flooded with light,’ he says.
Though divorc? Stephen has transformed the 前線 of the building ? which he is now selling for £425,000 ? what may excite 見込みのある 買い手s is that the area at the 支援する has 範囲 for その上の 開発.
Chapel change: Renovating Font House cost Mr Spencer £80,000 which he is now selling for £425,000
The 36ft by 12ft space has a その上の bedroom, kitchen and bathroom. ‘It is such a big space that it has 広大な／多数の／重要な 可能性のある to be used for a 商売／仕事 such as a nursery,’ he says. ‘Alternatively, it could become a separate 別館 or perhaps be used as a granny flat.’
Although Stephen did not 任命する／導入する the underfloor heating in this part of the building, he says it could be easily 延長するd from the system in place for as little as £1,500.
With rail services to London’s King Cross taking around 50 minutes from nearby Huntingdon 駅／配置する, the 所有物／資産／財産 would easily 控訴 young professionals planning to 減刑する／通勤する to the 資本／首都.
Malcolm Thomas, of selling スパイ／執行官s Individual 所有物／資産／財産s, is 都合よく impressed by Stephen’s 革新 work and says: ‘There is nothing やめる like it 利用できる anywhere in this area or anywhere in Britain.’
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To discover how Font House is received by Stephen’s fellow competitors in May The Best House 勝利，勝つ, tune into the show when it is broadcast in the spring.
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