{"id":110,"date":"2012-12-22T15:00:55","date_gmt":"2012-12-22T15:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markferry.net\/blog\/?p=110"},"modified":"2012-12-22T19:54:16","modified_gmt":"2012-12-22T19:54:16","slug":"who-wants-to-live-in-a-barn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markferry.net\/blog\/2012\/12\/22\/who-wants-to-live-in-a-barn\/","title":{"rendered":"Who wants to live in a barn?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Housemate Anne and I have decided city living is too cramped and what we <em>really<\/em> want is a houseshare in the country (well, almost the country).<br \/>\nWe found this just outside Cambridge:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/markferry.net\/house\/swimming_pool.jpg\" alt=\"Westfield Farm\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a \u00a32.5m designer barn conversion with a heated swimming pool, 14 acres, underfloor heating, roof-top champagne terrace&#8230; and it&#8217;s ours to fill!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/markferry.net\/house\/terrace.jpg\" alt=\"Roof-top Terrace\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve got <strong>two rooms to fill<\/strong> (out of five) and we&#8217;re looking for awesome, energetic housemates!<\/p>\n<p>The rooms are both spacious doubles with en-suites with walk-in showers at around \u00a3700\/month each excluding bills.<\/p>\n<p>The house has its own geothermal power plant so bills are comparitively low. (We&#8217;ve calculated about \u00a3200\/month each for <em>all bills<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll need to arrange a car (second-hand cars are <em>cheap<\/em> in the UK) or have a decent road bike (<a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/Ez79g\">~30mins<\/a> to the centre of Cambridge). Rush-hour trains from Royston take <a href=\"traintimes.org.uk\/royston\/londonkingscross\/07:00\/next-monday\">39mins<\/a> to reach Kings Cross.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re moving mid- to late- January, in time for my birthday party I hope.<\/p>\n<p>Serious once in a lifetime stuff, so join us!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gnomeza\">@gnomeza<\/a> on Twitter. Or mail us at <a href=\"mail:incrediblehome1@gmail.com\">incrediblehome1@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/mhRR6\">Google Maps<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/markferry.net\/house\/cheffins-brochure.pdf\">Estate Agent&#8217;s Brochure<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I shot some (pretty bad) video on a cold windy day in late September.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/55747309\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/55747309\">Westfield Drawing Room and Library<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/gnomeza\">gnomeza<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Housemate Anne and I have decided city living is too cramped and what we really want is a houseshare in the country (well, almost the country). We found this just outside Cambridge: It&#8217;s a \u00a32.5m designer barn conversion with a heated swimming pool, 14 acres, underfloor heating, roof-top champagne terrace&#8230; and it&#8217;s ours to fill! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[79,78,77,76,81,80],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-barn","tag-cambridge","tag-home","tag-houseshare","tag-wanted","tag-westfield"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/markferry.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/markferry.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/markferry.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markferry.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markferry.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/markferry.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131,"href":"http:\/\/markferry.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions\/131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/markferry.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markferry.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markferry.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}