About Us – Station Farm Cottage

Home at last. Almost.

There was a pretty white house I walked past every day on my way to and from primary school. As I got older, I’d see the house from the station platform on my way to and from high school. That station platform’s the place I met a boy who’d become my husband about a million years later.

That house is one I recall from childhood and by a stroke of luck, at the exact point in time we were on the lookout for our forever home, the previous owners of 30 years, decided to sell.

After months of disappointment while scouring property sites, there she was. Station Farm Cottage. A pretty white house we both knew and both found intriguing. And now, that pretty white house is almost ours.

Contracts exchanged, completion coming soon. We get the keys in the coming days and our adventure begins.

Built in 1884 (we believe), she began her life as a farmhouse. Her land was sold to developers when she was around 90 years old. Not long afterwards, she found herself surrounded by new build homes.

She’s now in need of a bit (a lot) of TLC, and we can’t wait to get started.

Hello there

I’m Katy, one of the custodians of the cottage. The other one’s Andy, my other half. Station Farm’s our happy place. It’s our sanctuary. Home to our menagerie, our random collections of stuff, and and our crazy hobbies.

We met within full view of the cottage. We were over the road on the train station platform, about a squillion years ago, on our way home from high school. We were chums, then went our separate ways. Twenty odd years later, we reconnected from opposite sides of the planet.

We were engaged in Jordan, hitched in Vegas. We lived in Australia before we settled in the UK and bought the house which had watched us meet all those years ago.

So, what’s the point of this blog? Why did we decide to create our own little home on the web?

We’ve a long renovation ahead of us. This seems like a lovely way to document all that we do.
We’re forever excited when we find bits and pieces from junkyards, antique shops and online marketplaces. This seems like a good place to gloat about the good stuff we get – or ask for help finding the good stuff we need!
By sharing our renovation journey, we might find other folk with sensitive period home renovation in mind.

We don’t expect our renovation to be over in anything less than many years. We’re not modernising, and we’re not filling the place full of tat from chain stores.

Where original features were removed, we’ll replace them. Where previous renovations have added asbestos artex, rooms not up to building code, and interesting fireplaces, we’ll peel back the layers and put back the period.

It’s not an overnight job, and especially not on a budget.

It’s a big adventure, feel free to tag along.

Station Farm Cottage
Est. 1884
Re-Est. 2020