Luxury Home of the Talented Fashion Designers Charles and Patricia lester
Finding the Dream
Our dream was to find a house with a large garden and well away from a road. We searched for many months – scanning the advertisements in the local papers – collecting information and finally finding the advertisement and details of Llanfoist House. Estate Agent jargon omitted the condition details, what captured our imagination was the drive lined with Scots Fir trees, the conservatory and that it was a large house. We could turn it into flats and let some of it to pay the mortgage, we could grow vegetables and live cheaply, we could have a goat and milk it – we would have safe magical space for our little girl – our cats would not be run over on the road. The price was way out of our budget and it was impossible in those days to get much of a mortgage and completely impossible to raise money on old buildings.
So on a sunny day in late February the journey was made from Pontypool to find this hidden treasure.
