This comprehensive renovation took three years, and involved taking the house back to its shell, overhauling the plumbing and electrics, reconfiguring the layout and turning the building back into a family home. Outside, in a process which also took a year, Kay and his wife, Jen, recreated the Victorian gardens, added garaging and reinstated the original driveway approach. In total, Kay says that the process cost “north of a million pounds”.
‘You can feel the presence of Nightingale here’: Florence Nightingale’s Derbyshire home for sale for £3.75m
