As Narda and Tris Harris drive down the country lane, towards their holiday home in Weymouth, Dorset, the couple’s fox terrier, Biscuit, becomes very excited. ‘When we go over the speed bumps she can sense that we’re approaching the cottage,’ says Narda. ‘We can empathise – she loves spending time here as much as we do. The house is our absolute passion.’
The couple spent a month of scouring Wiltshire, Somerset and Dorset before they came across the 17th-century cottage, just two miles from the coastal town of Weymouth.‘We hadn’t been to Dorset before and didn’t know anything about the area but I’ve always wanted a big garden, as I love gardening, and Tris had always dreamed of living by the sea, so the cottage gives us the best of…