Metro
How windmill renovation became a holiday home for the discerning
WHEN Londoners Natalie Roberts and her husband, Steve, treated themselves to a weekend at Bury St Edmunds’ Christmas market they weren’t planning to buy a windmill.
It was 2007. They were looking for a business project that would take them, and Natalie’s mother Jean, out of London. But Steve was convinced that the property, which was for sale, complete with farmhouse, granary and derelict windmill, wasn’t it.
