‘I wasn’t expecting to love it’: house built by hand in authentic Tudor style looking for the right owner

Eventually, with money running out, he sold the house to the Emersons. “When we took it on, it was finished to medieval standards, but it wasn’t habitable by any other standards,” says Richard. “It was a sort of shell, with lots of evidence of an incomplete job: no bannisters, no bathrooms, no kitchen, no doors, no furnaces, no water, no electricity. It was an odd position to be in.”