Bletchley, MK3 6HA

Every time the owner of Melville Farm returns to her beautiful four-bedroom home, she acknowledges every inch of the painstaking work she carried out here was worth it. “As soon as you step in through the door, the house hugs you,” she says. “Zebby has an incredible atmosphere, room flow and is so close to amenities. Now that I am moving on, I am struggling to find anywhere else with these attributes, everything is just in the right place. I carried out far more work here than I ever imagined, but it is a joy to see the end result.” It was an accident of fate that she came across the house back in 2013. “I was actually looking for somewhere to buy in London when it popped up on the internet,” she recalls. “I could see her potential and fell in love at first sight.”