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When the owners of The Parchment Works, a Grade II-listed Victorian house in Northamptonshire, decided to extend their property into the garden, they faced a significant problem. The area was already occupied by a ramshackle former cattle shed and the crumbling, roofless remains of a 17th-century parchment factory. Even had they wanted to, obtaining permission to…

