This ‘modest’ mansion is in apple-pie order

Tommy Barker says location is the reason why you can call a newly-built home of 3,800 sq ft and with a €1.6 million-plus price guide, modest.

MODESTY is a relative term, and compared to some of its 8,000 and 10,000 sq ft neighbours (some so ornate they might have been role models for Polly Pocket mansions) the recently-completed Bramley quietly sings its own praises.

Selected, and then adapted, from a Potton Homes UK timber frame selection of houses, the Queen Anne-style ‘old rectory’ is a timber-frame construct, with render and brick exterior, under a natural slate roof.